Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, owns 80
enormous warehouses or fulfillment centers around the globe to serve the 30
million customers that use buy stuff through the portal. These warehouses are
massive, with a singe building taking up 1.2 million-square-feet and containing
miles of conveyor belts. The logistics of running a single warehouse with
millions of items are mind-boggling, even before you add in the fact that
Amazon doesn’t use any robots. Everything is tagged, placed and moved around by
human hands. Even more stupefying is the fact that Amazon doesn’t store items
in an organized way. Everything is stored at random but their location tagged
with barcodes. Amazon calls the system 'chaotic storage,' and this is one the
key factors to Amazon.com's success in online retail.
