![Inside An Amazon.com Distribution Center On Cyber Monday Employees collect merchandise ordered by customers for shipment from the Amazon.com distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 26, 2012.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-fulfillment-center-3.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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![Inside An Amazon.com Distribution Center On Cyber Monday Employees collect merchandise ordered by customers for shipment from the Amazon.com distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 26, 2012.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-fulfillment-center-3.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![BRITAIN-US-RETAIL-COMPANY-AMAZON A worker collects order items at the Fulfilment Centre for online retail giant Amazon in Peterborough, central England, on Nov. 28, 2013.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-fulfillment-center-5.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Inside An Amazon.com Distribution Center On Cyber Monday Merchandise sits on shelves before shipment at the Amazon.com Inc. distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 26, 2012.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-fulfillment-center-2.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Operations Inside the Amazon.com Fulfillment Center On Cyber Monday An employee packs merchandise for shipment at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 2, 2013.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-fulfillment-center-7.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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![GERMANY-RETAIL-INTERNET-COMPANY-AMAZON Interior view of the hall of a logistics center of the online shopping company Amazon, taken on March 26, 2014 in Leipzig, eastern Germany.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-fulfillment-center-9.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Operations Inside Amazon.com Inc.'s Fulfillment Center As U.K. Online Sales Due to Peak Packages sit in regional delivery dividers ahead of distribution at the Amazon.co.uk Marston Gate 'Fulfillment Center,' the U.K. site of Amazon.com Inc. in Ridgmont, United Kingdom, Dec. 3, 2012.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-fulfillment-center-4.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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