Home Depot currently operates 130 distribution centers in the U.S., including 10 devoted to ecommerce. That included plans for an additional 150 facilities that play various roles in distributing products, including to stores and consumers, with 30 expected to open in 2022, a spokeswoman tells Digital Commerce 360. The home improvement retailer announced in 2018 plans to invest $1 billion over five years in improving its supply chain. Home Depot is a store-based retailer that’s building out a much larger network of warehouses, many of them designed to handle online orders. Wayfair now operates 52 distribution centers in the U.S. But in recent years, Wayfair has built a network it calls CastleGate Logistics to store merchandise and ship orders. It, at one time, relied heavily on its 16,000 suppliers to ship the 22 million SKUs it sells directly to customers. A prime example is online-only furniture retailer Wayfair. Several other major retailers are opening more distribution centers to improve delivery times and customer service. Target stores fulfilled more than 75% of its online orders in the retailer’s fiscal first quarter of 2021, Target reported.Īmazon fulfillment centers outnumber competitors They do that either by shipping parcels to customers’ homes from physical locations or offering shoppers the option of picking up their orders inside the store or at curbside. It’s important to keep in mind that retailers with many brick-and-mortar stores like Walmart and Target increasingly use those stores to fulfill online orders. Of the six more distribution centers planned, none are exclusively for online orders, MWPVL says. warehouses, of which seven are for ecommerce. It is set to open in spring of this year. Just this week, Walmart announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Mississippi, a warehouse that will cover 1 million square feet and employ 250 permanent workers. It has plans for 10 more facilities, of which six will be dedicated to ecommerce. Walmart operates 198 distribution centers of all types in the U.S., including 29 devoted to online orders. and Target Corp.Īccording to MWPVL: Walmart has 198 distribution centers That ecommerce warehouse count puts Amazon far ahead of its biggest general-merchandise retail rivals, Walmart Inc. Another 47 warehouses operate in Canada, with an additional 26 on the way, MWPVL says. In addition to locating mammoth warehouses such as the ones BigRentz tracks near big cities, Amazon is also opening many smaller facilities that sort packages for last-mile delivery to consumer homes.Īmazon operates 1,137 fulfillment centers of various types in the U.S., with announced plans to open 331 more, according to logistics consulting firm MWPVL International Inc. So there seems to be a strong correlation between population centers and Amazon warehouse locations.” Amazon has 1,137 distribution centers “Our analysis found that eight of the 10 states with the most square footage of warehouse space rank among the 10 most populous states. population centers,” says Lior Zitzman, director of digital audience at BigRentz. “It certainly appears that Amazon is concentrating its distribution near the largest U.S. Rethinking the Rules of Customer Engagement: Personalized, Proactive, Purposeful The Holidays Unwrapped: Global Shopper Insights & Predictions Walmart’s last-minute holiday strategies for the ecommerce marketplace seller! B2B Weekly Infographic: Distributor sales growthĪccelerating B2B Ecommerce in Manufacturing