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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do they determine which warehouse to pull my order from?[/quote]
If it’s being sold by Amazon and is a common/popular product it’s coming from the closest warehouse to you that has that product as nearly all the appropriately sized warehouses carry those item. Different warehouses have different products usually determined by the size of the product. The one I worked in had medium sized products. Things like printer paper, kids toys, diapers, pet food etc. There are other facilities that just handle smalls like lipstick, pens, etc or there is what’s known as amazonXL for very large items. If it’s a specialty item that is not a commonly purchased item it will be shipped from wherever they happened to store it. [/quote]how sophisticated are the warehouses? Do they use autonomous robots to pull product from aisle shelves?[/quote]
In some ways extremely sophisticated and in other ways not very sophisticated. Products are still being picked by human hands, items are placed in boxes by humans and pallets are still being wrapped by people too. Also all trucks are loaded by people ( this looks like the worst job to me because of how hot the trucks can get).  I would think all of this would have been automated by now. They do have a machine which can make, select and tape  boxes but I was told it was not in all facilities. In some older facilities people are still making boxes by hand.  They have orange floor bots that bring carts of items to people to pick from and you can not get in their way. There are also cameras everywhere which track all movement. [/quote]

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