Together, the trio navigated daunting challenges. In 2000, Amazon bolstered its fragile balance sheet by agreeing to handle online sales for the retail chain Toys “R” Us, with all merchandise sent to Campbellsville. The following year, it struck the same arrangement with Target. The excess inventory overwhelmed the 770,000-square-foot building. To keep up, Valdez, Clark, and Roth leased some six hundred tractor trailers, stocked them with overflow, and parked them around the tiny town (population: nine thousand). “It was pure survival,” Valdez said.
I also had a fulfillment center do this 25+ years ago, but luckily they only needed a couple of trailers.
