Excerpts from the report: Many affiliated wholesalers have developed efficient warehouse, delivery, and sales operations to service supermarkets and larger superette retail outlets. Because the sizes of the warehouses and the delivery fleets are geared to the efficient servicing of relatively large orders, costs to assemble and deliver orders to convenience and other small stores are relatively high. The overall objective of this study was to determine and compare the costs of using various combinations of layouts, equipment, and checking procedures for assembling and delivering grocery orders from wholesale warehouses to small retail stores. Costs and productivity for 5 order sizes—more than 75, 61 to 75, 41 to 60, 25 to 40, and less than 25 cases—were measured for each method.