Walmart, audited.
12 of ~164 facilities (US scope)2,114 dock doors5,250 trailer spots0 rail-served
We core-sampled 12 of ~164 DCs, We mapped 12 US facilities spanning every type, regional, grocery and perishable, fashion, import, and e-commerce; the yard pattern held across all of them.
Network size: Walmart FY2025 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties: 164 Walmart U.S. distribution facilities (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104169/000010416925000021/wmt-20250131.htm) (FY2025 10-K)
Public audit. Not affiliated with Walmart. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited Walmart’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
Walmart’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.
Walmart Import DC 6088, Williamsburg VA
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 12 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 Walmart’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.
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Walmart's Williamsburg import DC alone runs about 500 dock doors across a 191-acre cross-dock, one building sized like a small port.
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Across 12 DCs we counted room for more than 5,200 trailers and zero rail spurs in use. Every load lands and leaves through a truck gate.
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The McCordsville fulfillment center stacks 144 docks under a 2.2M square foot roof, the largest single yard Walmart runs.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with Walmart’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/walmart 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.