Dollarama is a leading dollar store retailer with over 1,600 total stores in operation. It is serviced by three existing distribution centres totalling over 1,250,000 square feet.

The Challenge

With high growth continuing, Dollarama needed additional warehousing to meet the demands of the new stores. They also had to develop a high-density layout to ensure they could maximize the use of the space they built.

The Solution

In 2016, Dollarama broke ground on a new state of the art 500,000 square foot distribution center. Working in conjunction with Etalex, a leading rack manufacturer based in Montreal, and 3D Storage Systems, over 53,000 pallet positions of 6 deep pushback were installed in the new facility.

Dollarama has been a longtime user of 3D’s low profile pushback, with the first installation dating back to 2003. Historically Dollarama had used drive-in racking to store material within their warehouse facilities. However, they were finding that honeycombing was leading to space utilization rates lower than 70%. By switching to pushback, they were able to still achieve a high-density layout but also increase the utilization rate to over 90%. Since 2003 Dollarama replaced a number of the drive in rack systems with pushback to increase their storage capacity.