Amazon has announced plans to open a second fulfillment center in Jacksonville, Florida. The facility will add more than 1,000 full-time jobs bring the total number of full-time employees in Florida to more than 4,000 full-time employees. According to Akash Chauhan, Amazon’s vice president of North American operations, “Florida has been an ideal location to […]
Amazon has announced that it plans to open two fulfillment centers in Aurora, Illinois which will add more than 1,000 additional full-time jobs. The company currently has fulfillment centers operating in Edwardsville, Joliet and Romeoville with another fulfillment center under construction in Monee. “In just over two years, Illinois has proven itself to be an […]
Online retailer Amazon.com reports that it is testing package delivery using drones, the company’s increasingly high-profile CEO Jeff Bezos told the CBS television program “60 Minutes.” According to Bezos the drones, which are unmanned vehicles that fly through the air, are capable of delivering packages that weigh up to five pounds. As for timing, Bezos […]
