Amazon is
headquartered in Seattle Washington.
Sales in
2017 totaled $178 billion.
Amazon
has over 550,000 employees in the US, Europe and Asia. Fulfillment Centers employ 90,000 employees.
There are 112 fulfillment centers in the US and 7 in Canada and Mexico. There are 41 fulfillment centers in Europe.
There are 32 in Asia including Australia.
Amazon is
an on-line retailer. Customers go the Amazon website and order merchandise
on-line and authorize payment via credit or debit card. Orders are forwarded to
Fulfillment Centers located near larger cities in the US, Europe and Asia.
This
method of retailing allows consumers to shop from home. It removes the “brick and mortar” cost from
retailing and adds the “shipping” cost.
This has resulted in expansion by “shippers” like UPS, FedEx and
others. The net result is that retail
items are cheaper and shopping is more convenient.
The
downside to ordering on line is that you don’t get to physically see and tough
the merchandise until it arrives at your door.
Some consumers who want to buy something prefer to go to a store,
inspect it, buy it and take it home.
This is not a problem when consumers are familiar with the items they
are buying. I’m not sure how you buy clothing without trying it on.
Amazon is
auctioning off the location for its “2nd Headquarters”, but there is
no information about what this means.
The AJC said Amazon would bring 50,000 jobs and that seems like that’s
too high. Amazon seems to have locations
like automated warehouses that employ 500 people and might have a $15 million
annual payroll. Amazon also has Software Development Centers that might also
employ 500 people that might have a $50 million annual payroll. This is good
for builders and renters to provide homes for additional people, but it’s hard
to see an advantage for the average voter.
Website
maintenance is huge in this type of operation to be able to access all the
pages that are required to describe all of the products Amazon sells. Amazon
should be porting the product information from the manufacturers to the Amazon
website, but this is a very high volume activity. Security is another
requirement to protect the credit card numbers of all of its customers. The logistics of having manufactured goods
ready to deliver in a few days is another big effort to get these deliveries to
the fulfillment centers where I assume they are picked up for delivery by UPS
and other shipping services.
Amazon
announced that it’s a headquarters, but it might really be a Regional Office to
cover everything East of the Mississippi. Calling it a headquarters is
confusing. Amazon’s foreign subsidiaries have their own CEOs and staffs, but
the structure in the US is unknown to the taxpayers of the cities who have
entered this tax holiday feeding frenzy.
Atlanta
is talking $1 billion in taxpayer funded incentives, but is threatening more.
Chicago opened the bidding at $2 billion, Philadelphia bid $3 billion. Maryland
bid $5 billion. New Jersey is bidding $7 billion. (AJC 2/4/18).
$7 billion is $7000 million. I don’t
know how those cities can recoup the cost of these bribes or if it’s even a
good idea to pay anywhere near that much to get a company to move to your town.
I hate to think a bunch of politicians anxious to bag a big deal would give
some company $billions and hand the bill to the taxpayers. But given the track
record of these politicians, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s exactly what
they will do.
Taxpayers used to get to vote to
approve bribes, but apparently those days are gone. We are used to getting
screwed by the legislature that allows the state and municipalities to give
away tax dollars without a vote by the taxpayers. The Braves Stadium move to
Cobb is a recent example.
If the developers want to put Amazon
in the “gulch” downtown, our hasty pudding club of politicians will need to
know how to make this work without making the gridlock worse.
Georgia voters will get another big
liberal left-coast, global corporation dictating what laws Georgia can have. We
certainly don’t want to have any laws on the books that violate Amazon’s
Marxist, Islamist Globalist, European corporate sensibilities and “values”.
Because everything we do at the Gold Dome is
engineered to increase MARTA ridership no matter what it costs, we may actually
get a “transit village” at the “gulch”, so we can have taxpayers subsidize more
retail space (ironic).
See below:
List of Amazon locations
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Headquarters
Amazon's global headquarters are in 14 buildings in
Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, developed primarily
by Vulcan, Inc. from 2008 onward. The first 11 buildings were acquired
from Vulcan in 2012 at a cost of $1.16 billion. The company was previously
headquartered in rented space within the Pacific Medical Center, located in the city's Beacon Hill neighborhood, from 1998 to 2011.
Amazon is currently building a new three-tower complex in
Seattle's Denny Triangle neighborhood to serve as its new headquarters. The plan,
designed by NBBJ and
named "Rufus 2.0" after a dog who was part of the company in its
early days, was approved by the city of Seattle in 2012 and construction
began the year after. The first of the towers, nicknamed Doppler, opened on December 14, 2015.
Software development centers
While much of Amazon's software development occurs in Seattle,
the company employs software developers in centers across the globe. Some of
these sites are run by an Amazon subsidiary called A2Z Development.
United
States: Austin, Texas. Cambridge, Massachusetts; Herndon,
Virginia; Irvine, California; Cupertino, California; Orange County, California; Pittsburgh,
PA; San
Francisco; San Luis Obispo, California; Minneapolis; Seattle; New
York; Tempe,
Arizona; Detroit,
Michigan
Fulfillment and warehousing
Fulfillment centers are located in the following cities, often
named after an International Air
Transport Association airport
code. Amazon Fulfillment centers can also provide warehousing and order-fulfillment for
third-party sellers, for an extra fee. Third-party sellers can use
Fulfillment by Amazon, or FBA, to sell on other platforms as well, such
as eBay or their own websites.
Warehouses are large and each has hundreds of employees.
Employees are responsible for five basic tasks: unpacking and inspecting
incoming goods; placing goods in storage and recording their location; picking
goods from their computer recorded locations to make up an individual shipment;
sorting and packing orders: and shipping. A computer that records the location
of goods and maps out routes for pickers plays a key role: employees carry
hand-held computers which communicate with the central computer and monitor
their rate of progress. A picker may walk 10 or more miles a day. In the newer
fulfillment centers, items are stored on pods and brought to pickers by robots
(Kiva Systems). In the United Kingdom initial staffing was provided by Randstad
Holding and other temporary employment agencies. In the United States, many workers are hired as
Amazon employees and granted shares of stock, while others are offered
temporary seasonal positions. "When we have permanent positions available, we look to the top performing temporary associates to fill
them." Development of a high level of automation is anticipated in the future following
Amazon's 2012 acquisition of Kiva
Systems, a warehouse automation
company.
United States (Fulfillment Center Codes)
California, Patterson (OAK3), Tracy (OAK4, SJC7, OAK6), Newark (OAK5),
San Bernadino (ONT2, ONT5, SNA7, SNA8), Moreno Valley (ONT6, ONT8), Redlands (ONT9), Rialto (SNA4,
LGB8), Eastvale (SNA6, SNA9), Sacramento, Stockton (XUSD)
Florida, Davenport (MCO5), Doral (Miami) (MIA5), Ruskin (TPA1), Lakeland (TPA2), Jacksonville (JAX2), Jacksonville (JAX3), Jacksonville (JAX5)
Indiana, Whitestown (IND1, XUSE), Plainfield (IND2, IND3, IND5), Indianapolis (IND4), Jeffersonville (SDF8)
Kentucky, Campbellsville (SDF1), Louisville (SDF2), Shepherdsville (SDF4, SDF6, SDF7, SDF9), Hebron (CVG1, CVG2, CVG3, CVG5, CVG7), Lexington (LEX1, LEX2)
New
Jersey, Florence (ABE8), Swedesboro (ACY5), Robbinsville (EWR4), Avenel (EWR5,
EWR6/7), Carteret (EWR9, LGA7/8), Teterboro (EWR8), Edison (LGA9)
Pennsylvania, Breinigsville (ABE2, ABE3), Easton (ABE4),
Harrisburg (ABE5), Hazleton (AVP1), Gouldsboro (AVP2/3), Carlisle (MDT1, PHL4, PHL6, PHL9, XUSC), Lewisberry (PHL5), Pittsburgh (PIT1)
Tennessee, Chattanooga (CHA1), Charleston (CHA2), Lebanon (BNA1, BNA2), Murfreesboro (BNA3), Nashville (BNA5)
Canada,
Calgary (Balzac), Alberta (Construction is expected to be done
fall 2018) (YYC1), Mississauga, Ontario (YYZ1), Milton,
Ontario (YYZ2),Brampton,
Ontario (YYZ3, YYZ4), Annacis
Island a part of Delta, British Columbia[40] (YVR2), New Westminster,
British Columbia (YVR3)
Europe
United
Kingdom, as of 2014, 8 in operation, England, Marston Gate, Ridgmont (LTN1), Rugeley, Staffordshire (BHX1), Peterborough (DPE1, EUK5), Doncaster (LBA1), Hemel
Hempstead (LTN2), Reading, Scotland, Gourock (Inverclyde)
(GLA1),Dunfermline (Fife) (EDI4), Wales, Crymlyn
Burrows, Swansea (CWL1)
France,
Boigny-sur-Bionne (2000), Saran (2007) (ORY1), Montélimar (2010) (MRS1), Sevrey (2012) (LYS1), Lauwin-Planque (2013) (LIL1)
Germany,
Bad
Hersfeld (1996 and 2010)
(FRA1, FRA3) (Hessen), Leipzig (2006) (LEJ1) (Saxony), Werne (2010 and 2017)
(EDE4, EDE5, DTM1) (North Rhine-Westphalia), Rheinberg (2011) (North Rhine-Westphalia), Graben (2011) (Bavaria), Koblenz (2012) (CGN1)
(Rhineland-Palatinate), Pforzheim (2012) (STR1) (Baden-Württemberg), Brieselang (2013) (BER3) (Brandenburg), Dortmund (2017) (DTM2) (North
Rhine-Westphalia)
Italy,
Castel San Giovanni (2011 and 2013) (Emilia-Romagna) (MXP5), Avigliana (2016) (Piemonte),
Passo
Corese (2017) (Lazio) (FCO1), Vercelli (2017) (Piemonte)
(MXP3), Milano (2017) (Lombardia),
Origgio (2017) (Lombardia),
Casirate d'Adda (2018) (Lombardia)
(under construction)
Spain,
San Fernando de Henares (Madrid)
(MAD4), Getafe (Madrid), Illescas (Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha), El Prat (Barcelona, Catalonia). Martorelles (Barcelona, Catalonia), Paterna (Valencia, Valencian Community)
Asia
China,
Guangzhou, Suzhou, Beijing, Chengdu, Tianjin, Shanghai, Haerbin, Shenyang; Jinan, Nanning, Xi'an, Xiamen
India, Mumbai, Bangalore (2014), Hyderabad, Chennai (MAA4) (MAA5), Ahmedabad. Jaipur, Gurgaon, Pune (2015), Delhi, Kolkata
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