These warehouses are massive, with a singe building taking up 1.2 million-square-feet and containing miles of conveyor belts.
Everything is tagged, placed and moved around by human hands.
Even more stupefying is the fact that Amazon doesnt store items in an organized way.
Everything is stored at random but their location tagged with barcodes.
Essentially, a product is stored wherever there is free space.
Items are organized by barcodes and shelved by code, instead.
Often things that don’t go together end up in the same place.
That craziness actually increases accuracy, reducing possible delivery mix-ups.
The real advantage to chaotic storage is that it’s significantly more flexible than conventional storage systems.
Free space is also better utilized in a chaotic storage system.
Without any kind of fixed positions, available shelf space is always being used.
Its also a major time saver to not organize products as they come in.
