Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:07:15 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] We all know that Amazon.com is big ...
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Cc: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mike B. <yahoo at omniphile.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2012 12:03 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>> ... but these photos are fairly incredible:
>> http://imgur.com/a/q1WIO
>
> More surprising than the size is the lack of automation for pulling
> orders...I'd have thought they'd have set that up a decade ago.  People
> pushing shopping carts around isn't the fastest, most efficient, or even
> the least error-prone way to run an operation like that.

There's some method to their "madness" ...
http://bgr.com/2012/11/30/amazon-warehouse-an-inside-look/

mjw