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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Amazon begs to differ.
Here's the link again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k53IDbtP-58
BTW, the malls I'm familiar with all have loading docks: they need ways to move merchandise in and garbage out. Usually hidden near the garbage dumpsters but very accessible. Also, the preferred location criteria for malls are the same as for distribution centers, right up to public transportation accessibility. |
I have been in more malls than most people. I used to travel for a living and my job took me to a different mall every day. Yes malls have loading docks. The mall loading docks are usually only found at the anchor stores. The small stores do not have loading docks. Most of them just have back doors. And some stores do not even have that. And unless the store backs up to an outside wall their back door is in a narrow service corridor. If you look at distribution centers, their outside walls are made up of loading docks. Distribution centers move a lot of freight and it is nothing for a large distribution center to have hundreds of loading docks. Loading docks also need a way to move freight around the dock with a human doing the moving. That is usually handled by a drag line that is imbedded into the concrete floor. Freight is unloaded from one trailer onto a cart, locked into the line and then pulled off when it gets to the correct bay.
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