Amazon reported strong sales in the fourth quarter of 2015, growing 26% year over year, and revealed it’s shouldering the fulfillment tasks of half of the units sold by third-party merchants. “It was a huge FBA quarter,” its Chief Financial Read more
An Amazon warehouse is being threatened with closure by the mayor of the town in which it is located – and it stems from the seasonal traffic – the real-life kind of traffic, that is! “After key Amazon representatives no-showed Read more
Amazon announced Wednesday it would open two new fulfillment centers near Columbus, Ohio. The fulfillment centers in Obetz and Etna will total more than 1.8 million-square-feet and are the first in the state. Amazon Vice President of North America Operations Read more
Amazon is creating 100,000 seasonal positions across its U.S. network of fulfillment and sortation centers this holiday season, which follows a ramping up of regular, full-time employees in recent months. Amazon has over 90,000 full-time employees across its more than Read more
Amazon.com announced plans for yet another hub in its distribution network – it will open a fifth Texas Fulfillment Center in San Marcos. It will join Schertz, Coppell, and Haslet in Texas locations hosting Amazon facilities, with the fourth under Read more
Amazon.com will build its first fulfillment center in Illinois in Joliet, a significant occurrence given the history between the marketplace and the state. Illinois had been off limits for years due to Amazon’s refusal to collect sales tax from residents Read more
Connecticut is the home of a 1-million square foot Amazon Fulfillment Center in Windsor, and now is getting a Sortation Center in Wallingford as well. A company spokesperson told the New Haven Registerthat a 173,000-square-foot facility will open in the coming Read more
Amazon is building a new fulfillment center in Minnesota. The 1 million-square-foot warehouse will be located in Shakopee. While the facility will include innovative technologies including Amazon Robotics, the company said it will employ 1,000 full-time workers at the site Read more
Amazon.com will open a new fulfillment center in Texas. The Dallas warehouse will be its fourth in the state, the others are located in Coppell, Haslet, and Schertz. The new 500,000 square-foot fulfillment center will process smaller items, such as Read more
Online sellers who send inventory to Amazon warehouses as part of the Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) program are being impacted by the closure of two fulfillment centers in the U.S. Amazon sent FBA merchants a notice on Wednesday with the Read more
