Target opens new sortation center in Detroit

Target has opened its 11^th sortation center in Detroit, Mich.

The new $1 million facility will be able to serve more than 3 million consumers and is expected to process up to 60,000 packages a day by 2028, according to Gretchen McCarthy, chief supply chain and logistics officer at Target, who posted the news on her LinkedIn page.

The center will retrieve packages from 30 to 40 stores a day before sorting, batching, and routing the items for delivery to shoppers either by a local delivery driver or Target’s third-party carrier Shipt.

The Minneapolis-based retailer said sortation facilities now process 19% more packages vs a year ago, and that deliveries now arrive over a day faster than what the company was previously averaging — but now at a 20% lower cost.

Target has existing sortation centers in Minnesota, Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Georgia, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

In June 2023, Target started extending the reach of sortation centers by opening the first Target Last Mile Delivery extension in Smyrna, Ga. The facility receives local, pre-sorted packages from the retailer’s Atlanta sortation center and stages them for pickup and next-day delivery by drivers on the Shipt platform. 

Target Last Mile Delivery is now available at all sortation centers.