More women manning warehouses
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Lauren Nichols, president and chief executive of 3G Warehouse, surveys stock from behind the forklift. She has owned the warehouse since 2009, expanding it from 25,000 square feet to 75,000. (May 29, 2012)
A few months ago, an alarm accidentally went off at 1 a.m. at the 3G Warehouse Inc. in Farmingdale. Lauren Nichols rushed there and was met by a police officer. He asked if she could call the manager.
She was the manager, Nichols said. Well, could she get the owner? She was that, too.
Women are entering the warehousing business, once almost entirely dominated by men, in larger numbers,...
