Amazon is reportedly asking some workers to volunteer to help with orders on Prime Day. Office workers in New York are being asked to work two-hour shifts to help pick and pack orders for Amazon Fresh.

Amazon’s $500 million warehouse is the Seattle company’s biggest in the Northwest – and among its largest anywhere. Amazon began stocking the 3.8-million-square-foot facility at the start of the month and held its “first ship,” the initial roll of products from the warehouse, on June 11.

Seventh Circuit judges considering a wage claim from Amazon warehouse employees referred a legal question to the Illinois Supreme Court, saying that is the proper place to decide whether a state statute allows for more expansive wage protections.

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In the West Valley, just south of the I-10 is a seemingly endless stretch of non-descriptive industrial buildings. But one is an Amazon warehouse with a unique delivery method.

The result is that 75% of Amazon deliveries are now assisted in some way by robots. One of the newest bots assisting in that effort is "Vulcan". Unveiled in May, Vulcan has two arms, cameras, suction cups and a sense of "touch". Amazon says it's capable of self-improving over time, which isn't in the least bit unnerving. Not. At. All.

The Seattle-based online megaretailer had previously scouted locations for a potential site in Scarborough, but no such facility ever opened.

Amazon now fields more than one million robots in its warehouses and says parity with its human headcount is coming

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About nine months ago, Amazon launched its first drone delivery service for customers in Phoenix out of its warehouse in Tolleson. Residents within a 7-mile radius of the warehouse, located right off the I-10 and North 107th Avenue, can get small items weighing five pounds or less delivered in an hour.