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The Home Depot’s e-commerce direct fulfillment centers

Unlike distribution centers which mostly supply brick and mortar stores, fulfillment centers are meant to send out online orders s quickly as possible to customers. The list below identifies the e-commerce direct fulfillment centers opened by The Home Depot to … Continue reading

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Geography of Chewy.com’s fulfillment centers

The table included in this post lists the current and future fulfillment centers developed by Chewy.com, an e-commerce pet products company. As is clearly evident, there has been a rapid expansion of fulfillment centers since 2014. Pennsylvania has seen the … Continue reading

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Fulfilling Amazon’s geographic strategy

Here is a weblink (http://bit.ly/1cAvzIM) to a map created showing the geographic distribution of Amazon’s current Fulfillment Centers across the United States and Canada. Currently, there are many such facilities around the world with more opening in 2014 (Tampa- Ruskin FL, two in … Continue reading

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