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Dive brief:
- Sam’s club announced on Thursday plans to open two new distribution centers outside of St. Louis and Minneapolis early next year.
- The next installation of St. Louis will serve as a distribution and fulfillment center, while the facility serving the Minneapolis area will be a multipurpose center.
- Sam’s Club now plans to open three distribution centers in early 2024, including one in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Diving knowledge:
The two newly announced distribution centers build on the Walmart-owned retailer’s multi-year growth plan aimed at improving end-to-end capabilities.
The distribution center of St. Louis, which is set to open in January, is 370,000 square feet and is located at 5710 Inner Park Drive in Edwardsville, Illinois. The facility will create more than 100 jobs, and hiring for hourly associates will begin this month.
Sam’s Club’s Minneapolis-area center, located at 7400 Hentges Way in Shakopee, Minn., will open in March. The facility is 365,000 square feet and will employ more than 80 associates with hiring already underway.
“We are designing our supply chain network to strengthen our omnichannel experience and increase efficiency and speed of delivery wherever our members choose to shop with us and receive their products,” said Joseph Godsey, senior vice president of Sam’s Club supply chain. in a statement.
In August, Sam’s Club announced plans to open a 300,000-square-foot multipurpose distribution center in Oklahoma City in early 2024.
In January, Sam’s Club announced plans to modernize its supply chain through new distribution and fulfillment centers, as well as opening more than 30 new club locations over the next few years.
However, despite its plans to open five distribution centers by 2023 starting with a facility in Georgia that will open in the third quarter, Sam’s Club has not formally announced whether the center is operational or if they have opened other distribution centers this year.
A Sam’s Club spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the status of its distribution centers by press time.
In addition to opening new facilities, Sam’s Club said in January that it plans to retrofit numerous existing distribution centers over the next few years to strengthen its physical and digital capabilities, as well as launch facilities with “automation and robotics last generation”. .”
