Nov 4 (Reuters) - Dutch retailer RFS Holland Holding, which owns the wehkamp.nl online store, is to build what it says will be the world's largest automated online distribution centre, able to deliver 80,000 packages a day.
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100K square foot facility with 468 automated shuttles for 500K locations. 80,000 same day deliveries.
Internet shopping is growing rapidly in the Netherlands, with half of all purchases by Dutch retail customers expected to be online within a decade, RFS said.Online sales in the country rose by about 10 percent to more than 10.5 billion euros ($14.2 billion) in 2012, the Dutch association for online retailers said on its website.The new centre, covering 35,000 square metres, will be built in the northern Dutch city of Zwolle by 2015 at a cost of more than 100 million euros, RFS said.RFS, which sells clothing, accessories, small electronic appliances and furniture, is the second-largest Dutch online retailer, with annual sales of 600 million euros.
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