For apparel and outdoor brands shipping retail and e-commerce
The season lands in one wave. You ship it two ways.
Warehousing for apparel, footwear and outdoor brands in Vancouver: container de-stuffing 14 minutes off the port, and pick and pack that ships stores and web orders from one pool of stock, delivered on our own trucks.
Brands that trust us
Does Rolls Right handle apparel and outdoor brands?
Yes. Rolls Right stores and ships apparel, footwear and outdoor gear from its 200,000+ sq ft Vancouver warehouse at 3200 E Broadway, about 14 minutes from the GCT Vanterm container terminal. It de-stuffs the season's containers on its own chassis, picks cartons for retail orders and single parcels for e-commerce from one pool of stock, and delivers to stores across Western Canada on its own trucks, including a Calgary lane six days a week. Rolls Right already moves apparel for national and global brands, and full-service apparel warehousing (receive, store, pick, pack, ship) runs on the Vancouver floor today.
Vancouver facility
- Facility size
- 200,000+ sq ft
- Clear height
- 12 to 20 feet
- Loading
- 20 dock doors + 1 drive-in door
- Sprinklers
- ESFR
- Racking
- Engineered racking installed
- Power
- 2,000 amp, 600 volt service
- Available footprints
- 1,000 to 25,000+ sq ft
- Security
- 24/7 CCTV and overnight security
- On-site climate
- Ambient and heated
- Chilled and frozen
- Rolls Right Cold Storage, Vancouver
- Highway access
- 4 minutes to the Trans-Canada
- Port access
- 14 minutes to GCT Vanterm
- Operating since
- 1976 (Coquitlam), Vancouver expansion following
The problem
What usually goes wrong.
An apparel season doesn't arrive evenly. It lands in a wave of containers on the sailing schedule, months of stock at once, and all of it has to be received, counted and put away before the first order ships.
Then it ships two ways at once. Retail orders leave as cartons against routing guides and booked appointment windows, and e-commerce leaves as single parcels. Split the inventory between a retail warehouse and a fulfillment house and you pay to be wrong twice, because one pool sits idle while the other sells out. One building holding one pool of stock for both channels avoids that.
This is a sector we already work in every day: store deliveries for national apparel retailers across Western Canada, and full-service apparel warehousing running on the Vancouver floor right now. Bring us the season's container schedule and we'll quote the whole chain: drayage, de-stuffing, storage, both channels and the truck.
Capabilities
What we run for apparel & outdoor
- Container de-stuffing and drayage on our own chassis, about 14 minutes from GCT Vanterm
- Carton pick and pack to retail routing guides, including mixed-SKU pallet builds
- E-commerce fulfillment: single-parcel pick, pack and ship from the same stock pool
- Re-ticketing, price stickering, barcode application and retail compliance labelling
- Display builds, bundling and kitting for retail programs
- Store delivery across Western Canada on our own trucks, with a Calgary lane six days a week
Why us
We're already in those buildings.
We move apparel for these brands every week, with store deliveries and dedicated Western Canada lanes on relationships that run a decade or more. That's a haulage relationship, and it doesn't mean each one warehouses with us. It is why store delivery windows, DC routing guides and retail compliance are familiar ground.
Where it runs
Served from Vancouver and Calgary.
Our established Lower Mainland operation, carrying the full service menu, built up alongside customers who grew with us.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
Can you ship retail and e-commerce orders from the same inventory?
Yes. One pool of stock in one building ships through whichever channel needs it: cartons pick to retail routing guides with booked DC appointments, and single parcels pick, pack and ship direct to the consumer, so you avoid transfers between warehouses and double safety stock. When a wholesale program needs stock held back, tell us the split and the floor holds it that way, with the rest staying live for web orders.
Wholesale buyers reject broken size runs. How do you protect the curve?
By counting at the level apparel is sold: the size. Stock is received, put away and picked by SKU and size, so a run that breaks shows up in the inventory before a buyer sees it in a carton. And because retail and web orders draw on one pool, a size that slows in one channel is still available to the other instead of sitting stranded in a second warehouse.
Can you handle re-ticketing and retail compliance labelling?
Yes. Re-ticketing, price stickering, barcode application and mixed-SKU pallet builds to a routing guide are routine, and display and kit builds run in Vancouver. Send the spec and we'll walk the first run with you before it goes live.
The season is ending and half of it is still here. What are our options?
The same crew that ticketed the season in can re-ticket it out: markdown pricing, outlet stickering, or re-labelling for a different channel. Cartons then pick to outlet transfers, to your own stores, or to a buyer's dock, and the truck is ours either way. Terms are measured in months, so holding or clearing stays a decision rather than a deadline.
Do you deliver to stores?
Yes, on our own trucks. We run store deliveries for national apparel retailers across Western Canada today, including a Calgary lane six days a week, so the company holding your stock is the same one backing into the store or the DC.
What forms of stock do you handle?
Flat-packed cartons and polybagged units are the everyday case, palletised or floor-loaded in the container. If your line ships another way, such as hanging garments or anything needing special handling, tell us exactly what you've got and we'll confirm the right handling before anyone quotes.
The season is already on the water. How fast can we be receiving?
Within days. Onboarding is a credit check and a signed agreement, typically two to three days, and a supervisor walks your first inbound. If the containers are already sailing, we work backwards from the vessel's arrival. That holds when the schedule bunches too: if three sailings land in the same week, the chassis are ours and the terminal is 14 minutes away, so the boxes turn on our timetable.
Get a quote
Tell us what you move.
Every line itemised and back inside 48 hours.
Tell us what you move.
Send the pallet count, how often it turns and where it ships. You'll get a real number back inside 48 hours, and a straight answer about whether we're the right building.