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Originally Posted by Lin2412
Also, I'm baffled that Amazon won't organize their things. God knows we need to properly shelf copies of Barbie VHS from 1993, 1994 to present... lol
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They *are* organized.
But it isn't by some archaic, simplistic system like product name or marketting category. Rather it is by available volume space at time of arrival.
As the article says, the computers know where everything is so they don't waste time sorting and reorganizing stuff, they just stuff it in the first available cubby that can hold it. Their warehouses are a lot like computer hard drives.
Do note that the warehouse procedures they describe are for the older, pre-robot warehouses. The newer robotic warehouses are slightly different: in those, the pickers stay at their stations and it is the racks that move.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...eady-ship.html