@Carmie wrote:
I already know why Amazon is fast.
They have thousands of warehouses all over the USA. They are close to their customers. A warehouse in California, for example, would never send merchandise to the east coast. Every warehouse only send merchandise to their regional area which might be a a couple of hundred miles, not thousands.
They have a lot of employees. They have employees working 24 hours a day with a normal shift being 10 hours.
As soon as you order something, it goes into a queue. From the queue it is sent to an employee who has a hand held device that tells them where the item is located in the warehouse. The employee is then told how much time they have to get the item, scan it and place it in a cart.
When their cart is full, they take the cart to the packing area and drop it off. The item is packed and sent down a conveyor belt into the area where it is sorted and then placed in the proper truck. There is a truck for each region the warehouse services. When the truck is full, it leaves the dock. All of this might just take a few hours.
Every employee has a quota to make every day. If they do not consistently make that quota, they are fired. If they must use the restroom and it is not their break or lunch time, the clock on their handheld device keep running. Most employees will " hold it in." So they can make their quota.
The warehouses are cold in the winter and hot in the winter. They tend to build warehouses where people need jobs and there are few available. It is not a great place to work.
There are many warehouse near where I live. Amazon seems to always be getting sighted for workplace violations. Yes, they get merchandise out timely, but their employees are not always treated fairly.
I personally know many Amazon employees and past employees. I feel sorry for them.
@Carmie
Thank you for posting this.
I know someone who works at an Amazon facility about 20 miles from my house. He confirmed this goes on. He also mentioned he worries about his safety because of some of the shady characters Amazon hires.
Yes, and Amazon enthusiasts don't seem to care when informed about what goes on there.
The very unfortunate aspect of this is Amazon has set the standard, so all other retailers feel they must follow suit or lose business because their customers are always complaining about how fast Amazon is.
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