Why does the largest shopping center have only 1 factory connection?

[bspawn]

Some of the smaller shopping centers have 2 or even 3 factory connections, but the largest needs more than 1 the most because its customer capacity is the highest. Is it an oversight or intentional?
I opted to have a meat storage on the factory connection, and besides a DO or two it needs a dedicated line for food to meet demand.

[Dummkopf]

The shopping centers with multiple factory connections are relatively new. So it's kind of an oversight. The old ones were never updated, and who knows if they will be. The old way I used to do it was have a factory connection crossing connected to the meat storage, food warehouse, forklift garage, and the shopping center. The forklifts would move stuff to the shopping center.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

The big old one benefits most from forklifts, staff otherwise have to fetch the goods from the connected storage's which they can only do if not overwhelmed and the large one should be expecting a lot of traffic (or you would have built the smaller ones right?).

[Runthgar]

I tend to use the forklift garage AS a factory connection crossing. It has 3 outs plus the road connection. You can also chain forklift garages together if needed.
forklifts from one garage will drive through another to get to destinations.

alternatively there are some very nice city warehouses in the workshop that hold food, clothes, electronics, alcohol, and meat so a single connection will work.

[Holyvision]

Mods help to fill in the gaps a lot.

[polcorp]

If you go to Workshop you will find several large stores with several connections.
There are different models, like this one:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2494643465&searchtext=dprk

[Elessar_warrior]

You guys can also place a big road cargo station. 6 cargo slots should be more than enough with wait until unloaded if your warehouses are not miles away.

[bspawn]

I've tried the large shopping center with forklifts once, they could not keep up.

[MartianDragon]

In my republic I used the large shopping center with the meat storage hooked up to its single connection. It ran at full capacity and there were no issues. The trick was to limit the storage of clothes and electronics and maximize the storage volume for food. That way, it was possible to deliver more food less frequently and the distro office had a better threshhold to initiate the delivery so that the shop still had some food when the new delivery arrived.