Word: item
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Each item goes into a large green crate that contains many customers' orders. When full, the crates ride a series of conveyor belts that winds more than 1 miles through the plant at a constant speed of 2.9 ft. per sec. The bar code on each item is scanned 15 times, by machines and by many of the 600 full-time workers, all of whom get Amazon stock options...
Your order is transmitted to the closest facility that has the products. Amazon's newest, in McDonough, Ga., opened in October and stocks more than a million items. Rows of red lights show which products are ordered. Workers move from bulb to bulb, retrieving an item from the shelf above an pressing a button that resets the light. Computers determine which workers go where...
...quickly attracted so much traffic that Omidyar's Internet service upped his monthly bill to $250. Now that it was costing him real money, Omidyar decided to start charging. He concocted a fee scale similar to the one eBay uses today: a nominal fee for listing an item (10[cents] back then, as little as 25[cents] now) and a percent of the final sale price...
...simply duplicate existing retail operations, such as catalog companies, online. "You can't take the mail-order model and plug and play here. For example, we need real-time inventory control. We need the website integrated with the back end, so a customer knows if we have an item...
...love with delivery, they don't even miss manhandling the fruit and vegetables. "I never knew what I was sniffing for in a cantaloupe anyway," says Molloy. Liz Stone concurs. These days, she only sets foot in a regular grocery store about once a month, for the odd item she forgot. "When we do go now, it's like a treat for the kids," she says. Children who actually enjoy supermarket shopping? The wonders of e-commerce will never cease...