Minneapolis-based Target said Wednesday that it plans to open at least six more sortation centers across the U.S. by the end of 2026, adding to its network of nine centers.

Target is aiming to boost its next-day delivery with an investment of $100 million in its “sortation” network, the company said in an announcement on Wednesday. Fox Business.

Besides the Twin Cities, Target has sortation centers near Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston and Philadelphia. During Q1 2022, they handled 4.5 million packages.

The sortation center will retrieve packages daily from 30 to 40 local stores and sort, batch and route them for delivery to local neighborhoods by a local delivery driver or a third-party carrier.

An Amazon Robotics inside the PIT9 sortation center in Pennsylvania, where robotic platforms deliver rolling carts of packages to workers for loading onto trucks. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop ...