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Article: West Marine Begins Shipping Boating Supplies from South Carolina Facility.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- January 19, 1998
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By David Milstead, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 19--It would be easy for a boating enthusiast to go overboard at West Marine.
More than 35,000 boat-related products, from nuts and bolts that sell for pennies to radar systems costing thousands of dollars, pack York County's latest mega-distribution facility.
West Marine began shipping this week to some of its 140 East Coast stores that will be served by its Firetower Road facility. The company is starting slowly as it consolidates two other distribution sites into the massive 460,000-square-foot Rock Hill center.
California-based West ...