Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A worker prepares to test robotic technology and vision systems at an Amazon fulfillment center in California. Are fulfillment centers the new steel mills? That’s a question suggested by a feature in Sunday’s New York Times .
The story about the warehouses, which e-commerce companies use to ship goods to customers, proposes they may be an alternative for the growing number of people who can no longer find stable work at places like steel mills, factories, and mines that used to sustain communities outside of big cities.
Reporter Natalie Kitroeff writes that these warehouses “have fueled a boom […]
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