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The area reaches into Yakima county.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[17,33],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":32},"table",[20,21,22],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[24,28],[25,26,27],"98930","Grandview","4",[29,30,31],"98903","Yakima","3","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":34},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 7 establishments between them. 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Processors ask for nestables first because the return leg is empty, then check the static load for the filled stack. It tends to lean on nestable, because bins and pallets return to the grower empty, usually in 48 x 40 in, with 48 x 48 where bins are square, and to ask about the static load for the heaviest filled stack.",{"h2":80,"blocks":81},"The empty return",[82,84],{"t":10,"text":83},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 7 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Yakima sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 3,500 pallets. 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