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- Author, Tom Singleton
- Role, Technology reporter
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5 July 2024
Three decades on from the day it began, it is hard to get your head around the scale of Amazon.
Consider its vast warehouse in Dartford, on the outskirts of London. It has millions of stock items, with hundreds of thousands of them bought every day – and it takes two hours from the moment something is ordered, the company says, for it to be picked, packed and sent on its way.
Now, picture that scene and multiply it by 175. That’s the number of “fulfilment centres”, as Amazon likes to call them, that it has around the world.
Even if you think you can visualise that never-ending blur of parcels crisscrossing the globe, you need to remember something else: that’s just a fraction of what Amazon does.
It is also a major streamer and media company (Amazon Prime Video); a market leader in home…
