We toured Calendar Club over off Burleson and Montopolis in anticipation of moving into Interchange. Calendar Club was optimized for fulfilling calendars, and we were expecting a huge season of shipping calendars in response to Despair’s big catalog mailing. As I mentioned before, we met Steve Terry on this tour as well as Alan Katzberg. Alan Katzberg owns A K Equipment Co and could supply us with all of our racking needs.

Unlike Guerrero, Interchange did not have any leftover racking piled outside the building for us to use. We were outfitting a big, clean room, and Alan Katzberg gave us the plan.

We set up the west side of the warehouse to have racks running north to south – I think we started with four rows. Then we left some space on the floor in the middle. On the east side we had our forward pick with gravity roller conveyors running north to south with gravity flow shelving on the west side of the conveyor and standard shelving on the east side of the conveyor. At the south end we had shipping stations with terminals and scales, and finally some gravity conveyor from the shipping station to shipdock staging.