Banner Wholesale Opens New Facility
Banner Wholesale Grocers, a Chicago institution for 90 years, has opened a new 75,000-square-foot facility only a few blocks away from its previous location. While the new warehouse, which the company built from the ground up, isn't much larger than the previous facility, it offers a layout designed to be more like a store to make shopping easier for its cash-and-carry and independent grocery customers. Open to the public, the warehouse also features a taqueria for easy grab-and-go food.
The new warehouse uses space vertically, rather than horizontally, allowing more product to be stored in about the same footprint to support Banner's business, which has nearly doubled in the past five years, according to Richard Saltzman, the company's third-generation owner. His children, Ryan and Carly Saltzman, are the fourth generation involved in the business.