The world’s largest retailer for years has been playing catch up with Amazon’s technology-driven fulfillment center. Now it’s building facilities that...
Oversized boxes are a thing of the past at Walmart’s new Lancaster warehouse, which is opening just in time for the holiday shopping rush.
Walmart has been building up its capabilities to compete more directly with Amazon which dominates U.S. online shopping with an estimated 40% market share vs. Walmart’s 7%.The Lancaster facility is also designed to receive and ship third-party sellers’ goods, which is an advantage Amazon has used to expand its selection and create a new lucrative source of revenue for itself.
A worker picks an order inside of Walmart’s 1.5-million-square foot online fulfillment center in Lancaster. The platform can be adjusted for comfort to her height.Boxes arrive at the packing station that are custom made in the facility to fit the size of the customer's purchase.The retailer has hired about 500 of the 1,000 full-time workers it expects to employ at the facility by the 2024 holiday season, Lamping said.
The new facility has machines that make a custom cardboard box when the shopper places an order. Sheets of cardboard go in one end, and the finished box comes out the other. The open box continues on to meet up with its contents at a packing station. Then it moves on to be inspected by another person before the box travels along the belt to be taped and labeled by yet another machine. The sealed box goes down a chute to be loaded onto a truck and off to a shipper.
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