Walmart announced the opening of its fifth next-generation fulfillment center in Stockton, California. The facility, spread across 900,000 square feet, will increase Walmart’s storage capacity and allow it to fulfill more orders across California and the West Coast, according to the retailer. What distinguishes Walmart’s new fulfillment center in Stockton The centerpiece of Walmart’s Stockton fulfillment center is its automated, high-density storage and retrieval system that brings products directly to associates rather than requiring workers to travel the facility floor. That reduces an otherwise 12-step fulfilment process to just five steps, leaving more time for workers to focus on higher-value tasks, Walmart said. Walmart now processes more than half of its ecommerce fulfillmentvolume through automated facilities, according to figures the company shared with investors along withWalmart online salesupdates in its fiscal Q2 earnings results.