Amazon under fire on warehouse safety
Amazon warehouse workers suffered fractures, contusions, head injuries and collisions with heavy equipment, GMB investigation shows.
Amazon warehouse workers suffered fractures, contusions, head injuries and collisions with heavy equipment, GMB investigation shows.
Online retail behemoth Amazon plans to have more than 10,000 robots in its warehouses by the end of 2014, reports HSS editor Simon Duddy.
Amazon Logistics has started a Sunday delivery service for Amazon Prime members in selected cities in England.
GMB, the union for staff in distribution, has written to local councillors across the country to ask them to look carefully at tax and staff issues if Amazon wants to set up a fulfilment centre in their area.
Property group Goodman will develop a 95,000 sq m fulfilment centre in Wroclaw, Poland for Amazon.
Market disrupter supreme Amazon has unveiled its latest would-be revolutionary idea – the delivery of small parcels to individuals using flying autonomous drones.
Criticisms that working practices in one of Amazon’s fulfillment centres could lead to ‘physical and mental illness’ are incorrect, according to a senior member of Amazon’s fulfillment team.
The rise of eCommerce is a bright spot in a gloomy economic landscape but it is also bringing new problems and new battlegrounds for old problems.
Amazon will open a new fulfilment centre in Tilbury, Essex in 2017, creating more than 1,500 new permanent jobs.
The roles will be created at Amazon’s UK fulfilment centres in the coming months. There are currently 6,000 permanent employees in Amazon fulfilment and customer service centres in the UK.
Amazon in the UK expanded its Pick-Up Location programme with its first ever same-day collection service.
Goodman has delivered over 3,280,839 sq ft of warehouse for Amazon across Europe, with the retailers’s latest fulfilment centre in Wroclaw, Poland now complete.
Amazon has announced it will open a 310,000 sq ft fulfilment centre in Dunstable, creating 500 new permanent jobs. The centre will begin fulfilling customer orders this Autumn.
LCP Consulting asks: is Amazon’s Prime service is hurting the online retail giant from within?
Amazon will create over 300 jobs with the opening of the new fulfilment centre this autumn.
The UK supply chain is gearing up for the Black Friday and Christmas Peak by taking on an unprecedented number of temporary workers.
The internet retail giant plans to occupy a substantial space at Airport City Global Logistics – part of the £800m business, hotel and industrial development being built around Manchester Airport.
Amazon has launched its Pan-European Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) programme. The service is said to help sellers of any size export to millions of Amazon customers across the EU more efficiently.
Many of the permanent jobs will be in the logistics sector as the online retailer extends its fastest delivery service Prime Now.
They will explore the steps needed to make the delivery of parcels by small drones a reality, allowing Amazon to trial new methods of testing its delivery systems.