Nordstrom and Trunk Club have announced their plan to close the Trunk Club fulfilment centre located on Goose Island in Chicago, Illinois to integrate its operations into the Nordstrom network of fulfilment and distribution centres, located across the United States. The Goose Island facility will transition to its close by August 2017. Presently, Nordstrom has three fulfilment centres, located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; San Bernardino, California; and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
“As Trunk Club has grown significantly over the past several years, we’re continuing to find opportunities to support that growth while also giving our customers the best experience possible,” said Brian Spaly, Chief Executive Officer – Trunk Club, adding, “While our space at Goose Island has served us well, we’ve realized that we’ll outgrow it soon. Thus, decided it’ll be perfect to integrate Trunk Club orders into the Nordstrom fulfilment network, which will allow us to share more of their inventory and better serve our customers with a wider mix of merchandise.”
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The Goose Island closure will impact about 250 full- and part-time employees. Nordstrom will work to help employees interested in staying with the company find roles at the Trunk Club Chicago clubhouse or at nearby Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack stores. “It will take us some time to transition our operations and ensure we’re taking care of impacted employees, so we wanted to let our people know as soon as we could,” Spaly added.
Trunk Club was acquired by Nordstrom in 2014. It serves customers both online and through its five clubhouses in Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York.
