Ecommerce Industry News
It appears more robots will be joining Amazon fulfillment centers. TechCrunch reported today that Amazon acquired robotics firm Canvas Technology. You can see its robots in action in a TechCrunch video from 2017 showing an […]
Amazon brought some of the people handling sellers’ packages to Capitol Hill last week. Amazon Fulfillment Center associates met with over 20 members of Congress. According to @AmazonNews, lawmakers “heard directly from Amazonians about their […]
Mississippi will get its first Amazon fulfillment center. Amazon will use the 554,000-square-foot fulfillment center to fulfill items such as lawn and garden products, toiletries, and other household consumer goods. Press release follows: Amazon.com today […]
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Alberta and a new office in Toronto, the company announced today. That makes 6,000 new jobs planned in Canada from announcements made by Amazon this year, from […]
A storm struck an Amazon sortation center in Baltimore, Maryland yesterday resulting in two deaths. The facility, known as BWI5, is located at Holabird Ave. Amazon Senior Vice President of Operations Dave Clark posted two […]
Amazon will open another fulfillment center in California. The 640,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Beaumont will fulfill such items as books, small electronics, school supplies, and home goods. The new facility will join Amazon’s other “Inland […]
Amazon is hiring 100,000 seasonal workers in the US across its network of customer fulfillment and delivery facilities, it announced this week. Last year at this time Amazon announced it was hiring 120,000 seasonal workers […]
Amazon will open a third fulfillment center in British Columbia, its tenth in Canada. Amazon operates a tech hub in Vancouver and also has fulfillment centers in Alberta and Ontario. In total, Amazon employs over […]
Amazon is building a second fulfillment center in Stockton, California, the company announced today. It has created over 39,000 full-time jobs in California and invested over $19 billion in the state since 2011, including infrastructure […]
Amazon announced plans for a sixth fulfillment center in Ontario, Canada, this one in the town of Caledon in the greater Toronto area. Earlier this month, it announced plans to build a new fulfillment center […]