Order Fulfillment Center
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Basics
- An emerging model due to the rise of E-Commerce
- It takes the model of a Big-Box Store but removes the customer from the site, and replaces it with E-Commerce based odering of items, and Shipping (or Local Delivery )
- Thus the issue of Engineering the Space for Profit is Eliminated (or rather in most cases moved to the website design), allowing for Organizational Optimization and/or Warehouse Automation
- One can essentially imagine it as a giant Vending Machine