Amazon is now operating a robotic fulfillment center in Massachusetts, streamlining the delivery of sortable items in the Northeast U.S.Chain Store Age recently took an exclusive tour of Amazon’s new fulfillment center in North Andover, Mass. (known as BOS3 – the three letters are the abbreviation for Boston, the nearest city with a major airport), its first robotics fulfillment center in the state of Massachusetts. Opened in March 2024, the more than 3.8-million-sq.-ft., five-story facility processes hundreds of thousands of small packages each day through 12 miles of interconnected conveyors.
All products handled at the center are sortable and have a maximum size of 18.5 inches for any of their three dimensions – or roughly the size of a kitchen microwave or smaller. Larger, non-sortable items are processed at other facilities, such as the Amazon BOS7 fulfillment center in Fall River, Mass...
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