Store Replenishment
Warehouse to Store Delivery
Warp moves freight from your DCs and warehouses directly to retail store locations — same-day or next-day, with live GPS, proof of delivery, and per-pallet pricing. No terminal delays. No missed receiving windows. No accessorial surprises.
The problem with DC-to-store delivery today
Getting freight from a distribution center to retail store locations reliably sounds straightforward. It is not. Traditional LTL routes your pallets through a terminal network: pickup to local terminal, overnight sort, line-haul, destination terminal, local delivery. Each terminal is a rehandling event, and rehandling is where retail-ready merchandise gets damaged. Display-packed cases arrive crushed. Tagged apparel arrives with hangers bent. Floor-ready product arrives needing repacking before it can go on the floor. Beyond damage, terminal networks introduce a structural delivery window problem. Retailers operate on tight receiving schedules \u2014 2-hour windows, dock appointments, freight elevator bookings. LTL carriers cannot guarantee a delivery window when the freight moves through 4\u20135 independent terminal touches. And without real-time GPS, your retail operations team has no visibility until a driver calls from the parking lot.
How Warp solves warehouse to store delivery
Warp operates a cross-dock network, not a terminal network. Freight routes from your DC through a Warp cross-dock facility and dispatches to the store in a right-sized vehicle \u2014 1\u20132 touches instead of 4\u20135. For metro store delivery, Warp dispatches direct: pickup at the DC, delivery to the store, no overnight staging. The vehicle is matched to the load: cargo van for 1\u20134 pallets, 26-foot box truck with liftgate for 5\u201312. Local 3rd-party carriers operate through the Warp driver app, which captures barcode scans, GPS location, delivery photos, and electronic signatures on every stop. Your retail ops team sees every load in real time. Warp's AI backbone, Orbit, monitors for late pickups, missed scans, and route deviations, flagging exceptions before they become missed receiving windows.
Use cases: when retailers use Warp for DC-to-store delivery
Ongoing store replenishment. Weekly or daily DC-to-store programs for grocery, apparel, home goods, and specialty retail. Consistent routes, per-pallet pricing, documented delivery on every stop.
New store setup. High-volume fixture and inventory delivery for new store openings on a compressed timeline. Multiple vehicle types, coordinated delivery windows, proof of delivery required.
Seasonal restocking. Holiday, back-to-school, and promotional inventory pushes that require surge capacity without committing to dedicated truck contracts. Per-pallet pricing scales with volume.
Promotional displays. Time-sensitive display delivery that needs to arrive retail-ready and in the store before the promotion date. Fewer touches mean lower damage rates and display-ready delivery.
Who uses Warp for warehouse to store delivery
Warp's warehouse to store delivery network serves major retailers, grocers, food brands, and DTC companies with retail distribution. Walmart uses Warp for store replenishment across active markets. HelloFresh, ButcherBox, and Gopuff run DC-to-store programs through Warp's cross-dock network. Enterprise retail operations teams choose Warp for the combination of receiving window compliance, real-time visibility, and per-pallet pricing that makes recurring replenishment programs predictable to run and easy to audit.
Per-pallet pricing: what it means for DC-to-store programs
Traditional LTL pricing for DC-to-store programs creates budget variability that is hard to manage. Per-hundredweight rates with fuel surcharges that change weekly, accessorials for liftgate service, residential delivery fees for non-dock store locations, and reweigh charges that show up on invoices weeks after delivery. Warp prices per pallet, all-in. Liftgate service is included on box truck deliveries. There are no separate accessorial line items. For retail operations teams running replenishment programs to 10, 50, or 200 store locations, per-pallet pricing makes freight spend predictable across the program and eliminates the invoice reconciliation overhead that comes with accessorial-heavy LTL.
Same-day and next-day availability
Warp dispatches warehouse to store delivery same-day for qualifying shipments in 50+ metro markets. For retailers managing store inventory tightly \u2014 where a DC-to-store replenishment run needs to respond to a stockout alert, not a next-morning LTL pickup schedule \u2014 same-day capability is operationally significant. Next-day service is standard across the network. Both same-day and next-day delivery come with the full Warp technology stack: live GPS, scan events, proof of delivery, and Orbit exception monitoring.
Technology your retail ops team can actually use
Every warehouse to store delivery through Warp generates a complete delivery record: scan-in at pickup, GPS tracking throughout, scan-out at delivery, photos, e-signature. That record is available in the Warp dashboard in real time and pushed to your TMS via API. For enterprise retail operations teams that score carrier performance against receiving compliance, Warp's delivery documentation replaces manual follow-up and provides the data needed to maintain carrier scorecards without additional overhead. The Work Queue assigns consistent drivers to recurring routes, so stores see the same carriers over time and delivery conditions are known in advance.