Amazon to build £500m Midlands fulfilment hub

Amazon has revealed plans to build a £500m fulfilment centre in the East Midlands. The online retail giant will create the huge depot at the Segro Logistics Park in Northampton. Along with three floors of robotic product-picking technology, the centre will provide jobs for up… The post Amazon to build £500m Midlands fulfilment hub appeared first on Construction News.

Plumbers' merchant plans Bolsover warehouse

Plumbers' merchant Fusion Utilities is planning the development of a new national fulfilment centre near Chesterfield.

Gousto signs Burton fulfilment centre deal with St Modwen

St Modwen Logistics has agreed terms with Gousto to develop a 295,000 sq ft chilled fulfilment centre for the recipe box retailer at St. Modwen Park Burton in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Inside Amazon's Smart Warehouse

Amazon acquired its status as a retail champion thanks largely to its lightning-fast delivery times. The astonishing feat of ferrying hundreds of millions of items directly to your door, inside 24 hours, is nothing short of a modern logistical miracle. So how does Amazon do it? A super-smart army of slave robots, for one. Ingenious, management practices are part of the answer too. And the modern-day deep-learning AI; all of which are made flesh in the world's most advanced stockrooms