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Amazon announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Utah. The over one million-square-foot warehouse in West Jordan will be used to pick, pack and ship large customer items, such as sports equipment, patio […]
Amazon announced plans on Monday to open another fulfillment center in Pennsylvania, making it the 15th operations facility in the state. The fulfillment center will be over 1 million square feet in size and will […]
Amazon will build two new robotics fulfillment centers in Ohio, it announced today. Each fulfillment center will be over 700,000 square feet and will be used to pick, pack and ship small items to customers […]
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 […]