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SUBMIT YOUR IDEAI solved this a few different ways. It makes me wonder what it looks like under the hood of the Find Nearest tool.
My solution is attached. I wound up using an append fields tool to append all records from the stores dataset to the warehouses dataset and using a distance tool to determine the distance between each store/warehouse pair. I then proceeded to use a summarize tool to group by store and determine the closest warehouse to each store. I see that the solution bypasses the aforementioned steps by simply using a find nearest tool. For some reason, it never occurred to me while going through the problem. Definitely need more practice with spatial tools!