Sam’s Club is preparing to reopen a shuttered warehouse club store as a fulfillment center for online orders in Worcester, Massachusetts. The 139,000-square-foot location closed last January when parent company Walmart announced plans to close 63 Sam’s Club stores and convert some locations to online order fulfillment centers. Converted centers have opened in Memphis, Tennessee; Matteson, Illinois and Fort Worth, Texas. The average fulfillment center carries about 1,500 to 2,000 products including coffee, cereal and household products, the Telegram reported. The general manager of the Worcester facility expects to send out five to eight truckloads a day of filled online orders. For retailers to compete in eCommerce, order fulfillment centers located in key geographic regions that serve shoppers are becoming essential. Warehouse operations are especially important in driving down delivery times, and grocers are in an all-out arms race trying to beat one another on faster delivery. In addition to its efforts with Sam’s Club, Walmart opened a $41 million eCommerce fulfillment center in Kentucky last September and a similar facility in New York to support one-day delivery for Jet.com.
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