Stop & Shop, audited.
7 of ~8 facilities (US scope)742 dock doors1,760 trailer spots0 rail-served
We core-sampled 7 of ~8 DCs, ADUSA supplies Stop & Shop from roughly eight Northeast DCs within its broader East Coast network, and we audited seven of the DCs serving the banner.
Network size: https://newsroom.aholddelhaize.com/adusa-supply-chain-opens-new-1-million-square-foot-distribution-center-in-connecticut/ (ADUSA Supply Chain, 2021 (Manchester CT DC serving 450+ Stop & Shop stores); ADUSA self-distribution network ~20 East Coast DCs across five banners)
Public audit. Not affiliated with Stop & Shop. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited Stop & Shop’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
Stop & Shop’s stack is connected. The yards never were.
Your TMS runs the road. Your WMS runs the building. The yards are the tier between them, and they were never on the network.
Every truck gets re-keyed, re-queued, and re-found at each step. The lost time lives between the steps, which is why no single tool ever fixed it. The audit below is that gap, measured on your real yards.
A real audited site, played gate→dock→exit on the true yard geometry. Switch sites with the picker.
Stop & Shop Grocery Distribution Center Freetown MA
Truck queues at the gate. Guard checks paper BOL, runs the plate, types data into a screen, prints a gate pass.
Movement durations are honest floors set by yard geometry; the uplift lands on the wait fields (queue + dispatch + secondary checkpoints). “Today” timings reflect the radios-and-clipboards world; “With YardFlow” reflects the protocol acting end-to-end. We may be wrong about parts of this, your actual numbers will tell us where.
What the handoffs cost across your network, and what removing them is worth
Read from satellite + Street View across all 7 facilities. At a comparable network, Primo Brands cut drop-and-hook turns from ~48 to ~24 min. Set your real volumes and margins in the calculator to put a number on it.
What surprised us reading Stop & Shop’s network
Three patterns held across the sites we sampled. None of them show up on a facility list. All of them change how the yard runs.
- 01
Five of the seven DCs gate the yard, but two big grocery DCs, Schodack NY and Bethlehem PA, sit open to the road with no checkpoint.
- 02
The network is temperature-split into dry grocery, fresh, and frozen DCs, with the Plainville frozen site run as an automated Americold cold store.
- 03
Several DCs are former C&S buildings ADUSA pulled in-house, including the Chester NY cross-dock and the Bethlehem PA grocery DC.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with Stop & Shop’s audited yards, set your real volumes and margins, and it sizes the opportunity to the dollar.
This deep-dive is the evidence behind the /for/stop-and-shop memo.
Are these your yards?
Tell us where we got it wrong, or see what 15 minutes of orchestration looks like on your worst site.
We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We show you what we found across your yards, you tell us straight where it fits and where it does not. If the call goes well, we talk pilot. If not, you keep the analysis.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@freightroll.com or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake, our founder, joins when it helps.