Amazon Fulfillment Centers in 4 States to Shut Down for Remodeling

Amazon is “constantly evaluating our fulfillment network to ensure best customer selection and convenience,” a spokesperson responded to a Yahoo Finance report that facilities in Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey and southern Illinois will close for remodeling, and workers have to vacate in two months. The facilities have robotic technology and are being renovated to “non-robotic facilities,” she told us, and associates will be moved to other nearby fulfillment centers in the same geographic zone. Someone working at a robotics facility in southern California will move to another fulfillment center that uses robotics performing the same role, she said. Some buildings will convert from a robotics fulfillment center to a different type of facility, which could include handling larger customer items powered by industrial trucks, not robotics, she said. “We’re constantly evaluating our network to ensure best customer delivery.” All employees have jobs waiting for them “as well as the option to explore career opportunities within Amazon across the country,” she said. Yahoo reported "thousands" of employees will be affected.