An Amazon warehouse that opened in 2024 in Shreveport, Louisiana, has produced ten times the amount of robotic equipment as previous facilities, the Financial Times reported. The company estimates that the increased automation led to a 25% cut to fulfillment costs.

This isn’t an overnight success, but a decade-long investment of resources into a vision of operations that, as analysts at Morgan Stanley have estimated, could generate $10 billion in annual savings.


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