{"id":25603,"date":"2017-01-03T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kents-amazon-center-ships-more-than-one-million-items-in-one-day\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:36:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:36:42","slug":"kents-amazon-center-ships-more-than-one-million-items-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kents-amazon-center-ships-more-than-one-million-items-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent’s Amazon center ships more than one million items in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Business boomed over the holidays at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Kent.<\/p>\n

Employees shipped more than one million items in a single day from the 800,000-square-foot-facility near South 212th Street and 59th Place <\/a>South<\/a>, according to company officials.<\/p>\n

The Kent site, which opened in March, joined two fulfillment centers in Poland and one in San Marcos, Texas in breaking the one million items shipped mark.<\/p>\n

“This truly was a massive team effort, and the results speak for themselves,” said Mike Roth, vice president of Global Customer Fulfillment, in a company blog. “Almost every fulfillment center, sortation center or specialty site showed year-over-year improvement. Some broke network records. And some even broke multiple records in a span of days.”<\/p>\n

Kent’s center employs about 3,500 full-time associates. Seattle-based Amazon employs more than 5,000 full-time employees at its fulfillment centers in Western Washington, with other locations in DuPont, Sumner and Bellevue.<\/p>\n

A direct hire warehouse associate receives pay of $13.75 to $14.75 per hour, according to a recent Amazon job posting for the Kent site. Amazon also offers health care benefits and a 401 (k) with company match.<\/p>\n

In the last two years, Amazon launched operations at more than a dozen new facilities, many of which house robotic technology, including Kent. There are more than 45,000 robots being used in 20-plus fulfillment centers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Amazon has a workforce of 200,000-plus hourly associates – a mix of permanent and seasonal – that made the record-breaking holiday peak season happen.<\/p>\n

“We shipped out more packages to customers this holiday shopping season than we ever have before – more than one billion items shipped worldwide with Prime and Fulfillment by Amazon,” Roth said.<\/p>\n

Prime Now is available in more than 40 cities, including Seattle, across seven countries. Prime Now features same-day delivery for orders of more than $35. Amazon provides delivery by 9 p.m. for orders before noon seven days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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