Amazon Built A Warehouse On The Opposite Side Of The Empire State Building To Speed Up Logistics.

In the new office building of Amazon in Manhattan, New York, the warehouse is hidden in the nearest downtown area.

The building is situated across the street from The Empire State Building, one of the landmarks in New York, and the warehouse is on the five floor of the building.

The cost of maintaining warehouse operations in the center of New York is quite high, and it will mean both advantages and challenges for any electricity supplier.

Even for Amazon, an e-commerce giant, the same is true.

Manhattan warehouse occupies an area of 50000 square feet (equivalent to 4645 square meters), far less than other warehouses of Amazon. Its operation area in Tianjin is 9 yuan square meters in one phase.

The warehouse is hidden in office buildings, rather than in cheap rent suburbs, just for one hour door-to-door express Prime Now service.

The main products shipped from this warehouse are urgent household needs, or seasonal goods such as general merchandise, fresh food, beverages, etc. in other words, when they are busy or cleaning in the kitchen, they suddenly find something that is not needed.

Stephenie Landry, global director of Prime Now business, said, "the category of goods provided by Prime Now has been changing."

Recently, goods that can be delivered to the door one hour have been added to various kinds of drinks.

Since the launch of Prime Now last year, it has covered 20 cities in the United States, and New York is the first city to open services.

This warehouse in Manhattan serves users in Manhattan, Broolyn and Long Island.

The Amazon user who paid the annual fee of $99 can get the package in less than an hour with the freight cost of 7.99 US dollars.

This means that the delivery crew will have to follow the traffic conditions and choose to walk, bike, bus or drive to deliver goods to the user in a congested city.

Before that, the order processing process is different from Amazon's operations center all over the world.

The goods in the market are placed on random shelves, and the system will record their location and date on the shelves.

In the next process of picking, packing and sorting, the system guides workers, arranges the best picking routes, guides the workers to use large models, and judges whether the orders are deviant.

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In the middle of the tide, there are a few start-up companies that do door-to-door delivery for an hour.

Instacart sends people to buy food from supermarkets, and Postmates has covered almost all food and daily necessities in San Francisco. Uber also regards the same day express as a serious business.

The quicker delivery, the more impatient people receive the goods, or the more time they have left to receive the goods.

This trend is particularly evident in the Christmas shopping season.

In the United States, the meaning of Christmas Eve is similar to that of Chinese New Year's Eve. People's shopping mood is about the same as that we need to catch the package before thirty.

This Christmas Eve (the US hasn't arrived yet), Amazon is ready to deliver to the last hour of midnight.

The same "last minute" shopping scheme, Target and WAL-MART, encourages users to place orders online and then pick up goods at the nearest shops.