Diamond Closing Its LA Warehouse

ICv2.com has the best summary of the news. In as much of a straight-forward announcement as this kind of stories , Diamond will close its LA warehouse and move those operations to its massive Memphis-area facility in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

The timing coincides with Diamond's adoption of a day-early delivery schedule for participating stores. While select personnel will be transferred to Mississippi in order to facilitate the increased business, it appears as if a number of Los Angeles workers will be looking for employment in the New Year. Also lost will be the method through which apparently some Los Angeles accounts used the proximity of the facility to pick up their books themselves -- I'm not certain if the day-early delivery program can help fulfill anything those accounts might feel they're losing or not. It seems as if Diamond will employ UPS as the structural backbone on certain kinds of deliveries, and will work with International accounts on an case-to-case basis.

I could be wrong, but I believe at one point Diamond had around 20 smaller distribution locations -- perhaps even slightly more than that. If you look at the last four decades of comics distribution, one major through-line to that industry's story is overwhelmingly one of consolidation of facilities. The desire to significantly streamline or flat-out reduce costs is on the minds of most businesses in this economy, including comics-related ones.
 
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