7-Eleven Moving Ahead with Centralized Warehouse Test, Says Chief Executive

"Distribution systems were built for big-box retailers, and we're a small box." So says 7-Eleven chief Joe DePinto, who again publicly discussed the central warehouse test he plans to conduct for beverages in Southern California with 300 stores. The c-store chain wants to ship all bottled and canned beverages through a centralized warehouse with a third-party logistics provider. DePinto gave a speech at SMU yesterday for the Ernst & Young Management Briefing, in which he says that at 2,400 square