Amazon’s new robotic fulfilment centre, named YXU1 after the code name for London International Airport, opens Oct. 1. The 186,000-square-metre (two-million-square-foot) facility in Southwold Township will employ more than 1,000 workers who will pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day with the help of robotics technology. Free Press photographer Derek Ruttan toured the new facility on Tuesday. Read More
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