CS MONITOR: The move is expected to help with efficiency during the franticly busy buying season.
CS MONITOR: The move is expected to help with efficiency during the franticly busy buying season.
“We pick two to three times faster than we used to,” Rosales said during a short break from sorting merchandise into bins atAmazon’s massive distribution center in Tracy, California, about 60 miles east of San Francisco. “It’s made the job a lot easier.”
Amazon.com Inc., which faced its single biggest day of online shopping on Monday, has invested heavily this year in upgrading and expanding its distribution network, adding new technology, opening more shipping centers and hiring 80,000 seasonal workers to meet the coming onslaught of holiday orders. Amazon says it processed orders for 36.8 million items on the Monday after Thanksgiving last year, and it expected “Cyber Monday” to be even busier this year.
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