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Walmart Plans to Build Massive E-Commerce Fulfillment Center in Plainfield

Monday, August 13, 2018   (0 Comments)
Posted by: Alyce Ryan

Walmart Inc., which operates a 1.2-million-square-foot e-commerce fulfillment center in Plainfield, plans to add a second facility of similar size on an adjoining site.

The retail behemoth’s existing e-commerce fulfillment center, in Plainfield’s AllPoints Industrial Park, opened in 2015. That operation will soon be joined by a twin facility.

“We’re planning to build a new facility dedicated to fulfilling e-commerce orders for our growing digital business,” Walmart spokeswoman Anne Hatfield told IBJ in an e-mail. “The new facility will be more than one million square feet, located adjacent to our existing facilities in Plainfield, and we anticipate adding hundreds of new jobs over the coming years in the new facility.”

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