Target opens new Rialto distribution center (LA Business 072106)

The Distribution center that Target opened in Rialto is more then likely 3 to 5 times bigger then the one that they had in Ontario. It is more then one block up in Rialto's North end at 1.3 Million Square Feet, just huge. It is one of he biggest Distributer Werehouses that I have ever seen, not that I have seen a whole bunch, but it is huge.

I am happy that they chose Rialto and they are in a nice quet part of town. I don't think that they are in an area that can or could be zoned anything else but, Light industry just because the military used to store munisions up there and it might have done something to the land, I don't know I am just thinking with a typwriter..LOL. They go all the way south to the dump, and all the way north to the Las Colinas Neighborhood. That is some large area.

The fact that they employ 500 people is great, but they probably will have at anyone time up to 1000 people on their books, but that does not necisarally mean that the person works every day for them, they don't fire or lay anyone off, to avoid paying anyone any Unemployment Insurance!! weird, but that is what they do, the crew that shows up has to load unload all those trucks and if no one shows they are looking for people to show up. It is weird, but the amount of people that they have they keep the people that are on with them for a good long time and they will pay them a good wage it is just frustration when the people around you take days off without calling in or anything.

I had a friend that worked for them for about two years and he was so frustrated that he had to quit, and get away from the pressure that they put onto them. I just hope for the people that work at the Rialto Target Werehouse that it is not like that for them.

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Target opens new Rialto distribution center

Los Angeles Business from bizjournals - 12:34 PM PDT Friday

by John Vomhof Jr.

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

Target Corp. on Friday officially opened a new 3.1 million-square-foot distribution center in Rialto.

The new facility will be the largest single investment in an operating unit in Target's history, the company said in a release.

Minneapolis, Minn.-based Target now has 30 distribution centers in 20 states. These facilities receive shipments from suppliers, ship products to Target stores and provide storage space for merchandise.

The Rialto distribution center will initially employ 500 workers, with plans to add several hundred employees during the first five years of operation.

Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) also said it will open 29 new stores in 18 states on Sunday, including one in Irvine. Following the openings, the company will have 1,444 stores in 47 states.