Amazon opened over 75 new fulfillment, sortation centers, regional air hubs, and delivery stations in the US and Canada in 2020, and this month alone it is opening 100 new buildings, according to its Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations Read more
Amazon opened another fulfillment center in California, this one in Beaumont. The additional capacity comes as the online marketplace deals with the increase in shopping due to the pandemic and the peak holiday shopping season ahead. The 640,000 square-foot fulfillment Read more
Amazon is seeking 20,000 workers for the holiday shopping season in the UK. Interestingly, it pointed out it has over 250 million unique products available on Amazon.co.uk from tens of thousands of independent businesses of all sizes – “significant growth Read more
Like major shipping carriers, Amazon has relied a great deal on the USPS for “last mile” delivery of packages to shoppers’ homes. This week it announced an expansion of its fulfillment capacity in Arizona that could signal a determination to Read more
Last month, Amazon said it was extending field tests of Scout, its “fully-electric delivery system designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices.” It’s just one of the ways the company is expanding its logistics capabilities. This Read more
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee next year. The facility joins others in the state, including fulfillment and sortation centers in Charleston, Chattanooga, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Memphis, and Nashville. The new fulfillment center is the seventh Read more
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in El Paso, Texas. The first in the city, it is expected to open next year. “We’re excited to be growing our operations in West Texas and look forward to building out our Read more
Amazon announced this week it will increase its workforce in Spain by 2,000 positions for a total of 9,000 workers in that country. Amazon noted it will be opening two new fulfillment centers in Dos Hermanas (Seville) and Alcalá de Read more
Amazon said it is on track to open 33 new fulfillment centers in the US this year, which will increase peak fulfillment center standard-sized product storage capacity by nearly 35 million cubic feet more than last year. It also revealed Read more
Amazon announced Tuesday it will open a new fulfillment center in Little Rock, Arkansas, only a few hours away from Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. The news came the same day reports surfaced that Walmart is planning to launch an Read more
