Target’s Adding Three New Sortation Centers in Denver and Chicago to Deliver *Even Faster* for Guests

Target | July 25, 2022

Here at Target, we’re always looking for new ways to make sure you have an incredible shopping experience. Our latest move? Adding three new sortation centers in the next year — two in greater Chicago and one in the Denver metro — to power even speedier delivery for our guests, while helping our teams work more efficiently and reducing our shipping costs. Together with our six existing sortation centers across the country, these additions will mean an even better experience for even more guests now and in the years to come.

What’s so special about these facilities?

Sortation centers take orders packed in local stores and sort them quickly and efficiently for local deliveries. They are the next phase of our stores-as-hubs strategy, helping lower costs and creating efficiencies for our operations while increasing speed of delivery for our guests. That’s important given our digital sales have grown nearly $13 billion from 2019 to 2021, and our stores fulfilled more than 95% of our total sales in 2021.

But rather than team members managing packing and sorting packages in a store’s backroom, sortation centers take on the sorting process, saving our store teams time and space so they can fulfill more orders and reach guests faster at a lower delivery cost for us. Plus, sortation centers allow our teams to easily scale to fulfill a growing number of orders, and consolidating orders and batching deliveries add ease for our carriers.  And we do it all while staying focused on serving our guests no matter how they choose to shop with us.

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