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Inside Newegg's East Coast Distribution Center

Posted by Soulskill on from the pick-me-up-a-new-psu-while-you're-there dept.

MrSeb writes "Did you know that Newegg is the second largest e-tailer in the U.S., after Amazon? Perhaps building your own computer isn't dead yet! Matthew Murray was recently invited to take a tour of the Newegg east coast distribution center and see what goes on behind the scenes. 'The 350,000-square-foot Edison warehouse not only houses some 15,000 SKUs of products, it also ships as many as 15,000 packages a day ... All of the different products the company carries are sorted both by category and how easy they are to move: Obviously, HDTVs are more cumbersome and difficult to remove safely than processors. Some mobile equipment, such as laptops, netbooks, and tablets, are stored in a special “high-value” area behind a chain-link fence that’s been erected within the warehouse itself.'"

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  1. Clueless guy visits a fulfillment center by Animats · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK, Clueless guy visits an order fulfillment center. Not even a very interesting one. No Kiva robots like "soap.com", no incredibly fast processing on long orders for many tiny items like "digikey.com", no unusual outsourcing like UPS's laptop repair center.. Just an ordinary fulfillment center.

    Maybe next he'll get out of Manhattan and visit a factory.

    (Then again, "Pawn Stars" and "Storage Wars" are actual reality shows.)

    1. Re:Clueless guy visits a fulfillment center by Anrego · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Meh, I actually found it interesting.

      I've never been inside an "ordinary fulfillment center", and have indeed always wondered how it all works. Sometimes the mysteries behind mundane things are interesting.

  2. More photos? by massysett · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some more photos would have been good...you go all the way to New Jersey and you only took three pictures? That Pick to Light system sounded interesting, but a photo would have made it all clearer.

    I thought that this story had already been done, and sure enough, it has. Of course I'm sure Newegg is happy to give a warehouse tour to any blogger who wants one. I'm not even sure the story I linked is the one I've seen before. Wait, maybe that was this one! Anyway, both of those had more photos.

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  3. Re:Different counter-measures for different threat by TWX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't agree. There are always people who will attempt to milk the system even when they're happy. I've had a roommate like that.

    I won't dispute that less employees will steal, but it certainly won't eliminate the problem.

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