New Jersey is still the main warehouse from what I was told by an order taker not long ago. The main problem I see with USA DS is they can't compete with countries being serviced by the Germany Playmobil plant directly. As we used to say in the car dealership parts department I worked in some years ago, dealerships living out of the manufactures back pocket have a major step up from dealers at the mercy of trucking items in. In other words, a dealership parts department that was located in the same city as a manufacturer's warehouse could set up a will call, & use their own delivery trucks to pick up items directly at the warehouse instead of waiting for normal shipping that took days or longer to receive something. Plus their stocking levels for inventory could be kept much lower, because if they needed something for their shelves, they just placed the order for it & within the next day ran a truck to pick it up. Think about it, UK, & European DS parts departments aren't required to stock hardly any parts at all. They place a parts order, & it is shipped directly from Germany, & the entire transaction takes very few turn around days, very few back orders or out of stock issues, fewer wrong parts, better availability, it's just plain unfair!
