Modern: Don, your company is celebrating its 35th anniversary, and you're celebrating your 80th birthday. Those are major milestones. What led you to the materials handling industry?rnDeSanctis: Back in 1965, I was hired by Allied Stores, a regional department store chain, to design and build distribution centers. There were a lot of family-owned department stores in the country back then that were expanding from one big store to chains of five, six or seven stores, and they didn't have a clue how to do distribution.
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