SpartanNash to Open New Micro-Fulfillment Center to Better Serve Online Grocery Shoppers
July 14 2021 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
The 55,000-sq.-foot Micro-Fulfillment Center
will support Fast Lane orders at 24 grocery stores in West
Michigan
Grocery retailer and distributor SpartanNash (Nasdaq: SPTN)
today announced plans to open its first SpartanNash
Micro-Fulfillment Center, located at 5199 68th St. SE in Caledonia,
Mich. The 55,000-square-foot facility will hold 16,000 products and
pick and pack Fast Lane orders for 24 Ada Fresh Market, D&W
Fresh Market, Family Fare and Forest Hills Foods stores throughout
West Michigan, primarily in the Grand Rapids and Holland area.
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“Fast Lane has been a tremendous value-add for our store guests
as the pandemic heightened the importance of safe, efficient
grocery shopping, pickup and delivery,” SpartanNash President and
CEO Tony Sarsam said. “The Micro-Fulfillment Center is an exciting
investment designed to further elevate the Fast Lane shopping
experience as we strive to continuously improve our fulfillment
speed and product availability.”
Fast Lane is the company’s proprietary, intuitive online grocery
shopping solution. Fast Lane orders are fulfilled by SpartanNash
personal shoppers who focus on selecting fresh, high-quality items
and who can communicate directly with guests via text messaging to
determine preferences such as ripeness of fruit or thickness of
steak.
The grand opening for the Micro-Fulfillment Center is scheduled
for July 26 and coincides with Fast Lane’s four-year anniversary.
Since Fast Lane was introduced in 2017, nearly one million orders
have been shopped.
The Micro-Fulfillment Center will support more than 1,000 Fast
Lane orders daily once fully operational – more than doubling
current Fast Lane order capabilities. The facility will increase
Fast Lane efficiency, free up space and stock in stores and give
Fast Lane customers even more product assortment.
Once a Fast Lane order is picked and packed at the
Micro-Fulfillment Center, it is delivered either directly to a
store for curbside pickup or to the shopper’s home.
“We look forward to delivering an even higher level of quality
and convenience to our store guests than they already enjoy with
Fast Lane,” said Tom Swanson, SpartanNash executive vice president
and general manager, corporate retail. “The technology and design
of the MFC will allow us to be three to four times more efficient
than fulfilling orders in-store. The new process increases our
already great service effectiveness and gives our Fast Lane
customers even more variety and assortment – all benefits we’re
excited to introduce as a result of the MFC.”
Fast Lane orders can be placed through shopthefastlane.com.
About SpartanNash
SpartanNash (Nasdaq: SPTN) is a Fortune 400 company whose core
businesses include distributing grocery products to a diverse group
of independent and chain retailers, its corporate-owned retail
stores and U.S. military commissaries and exchanges; as well as
operating a premier fresh produce distribution network. SpartanNash
serves customer locations in all 50 states and the District of
Columbia, Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Iraq, Kuwait,
Bahrain, Qatar and Djibouti. SpartanNash currently operates 149
supermarkets, primarily under the banners of Family Fare, Martin's
Super Markets, D&W Fresh Market, VG's Grocery and Dan's
Supermarket. Through its MDV military division, SpartanNash is a
leading distributor of grocery products to U.S. military
commissaries.
Editor's note: Photos of the
Micro-Fulfillment Center and Fast Lane can be downloaded at:
bit.ly/MFCgrandopening
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Adrienne Chance VP, Communications SpartanNash
press@spartannash.com
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