Think about its enormous warehouse located in the London suburb of Dartford. The company claims that it has millions of stock goods, with hundreds of thousands of them being purchased every day, and that it takes two hours from the time an order is placed until it is chosen, packed, and shipped.
Imagine that scene now, then magnify it by 175. That represents the total number of “fulfillment centers” that Amazon maintains globally.
Remember this even if you think you can see the never-ending blur of packages flying all across the world: that’s only a small portion of what it does.
stated, it isIn addition, it is a leading provider of smart speakers (Alexa), tablets, e-readers (Kindle), home camera systems (Ring), and video and streaming services (Amazon Prime Video). It also hosts and maintains a sizable portion of the internet (Amazon Web Services), among many other things.
According to Bloomberg’s Amanda Mull, “Amazon is sort of ‘The Everything Company’ at this point, but it has been called ‘The Everything Store’ for a long time.”
“It’s so large and so omnipresent and touches so many different parts of life that, after a while, people sort of take Amazon’s existence in all kinds of elements of daily life sort of as a given,” she continues.
Or, as the business itself jokingly once stated, it is essentially the only method it has.
