Visit the Amazon fulfilment centre in Bolton
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Amazon MAN3, Bridgewater Avenue, Bolton, UK
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UPDATE (21/2)
I have booked 8 places but will continue to try to secure places if anybody else wishes to sign up.
This is an opportunity to see how Amazon operates its warehouse and fulfils your order from when you place it online to when it arrives with a courier at your house! This is a FREE experience, the visit itself will be 3pm-4.30pm but obviously we need to factor in time to get to Bolton and home again afterwards. I am happy to drive and Karen Walker has also volunteered to drive so there are a few spaces in cars. An unusual and exciting opportunity - browse the info below, I'll also give more detailed info about what to wear etc nearer the time.
Each tour is approximately 45-60 minutes long and covers between 1-2 km. Tour routes may involve walking up and down multiple flights of stairs. We recommend bringing a clear water bottle that can be refilled at water stations along the route.
How does an Amazon warehouse really work?
Come meet us and find out for yourself! Did you know that Amazon fulfilment centres are far more than a traditional warehouse? Some of our buildings are as large as 28 football fields, and can hold millions of products at one time. They are bright, huge buildings with orange robots transporting towers of goods, miles of conveyor belts carrying inventory in every direction, and shipping labels practically flying onto boxes, blown by puffs of air. On a tour, you will see how products in your online shopping cart get from Amazon to you. It’s a symphony of people and technology that allows us to deliver orders quickly and efficiently to customers around the world.
Cutting-edge technology
Amazon Tours allow you to see different types of robots in action and explain how they make the fulfilment process more efficient! Robots not only benefit the people who work alongside them, by reducing the distance we walk. They also improve the shopping experience for our customers by allowing us to hold more inventory and process orders more quickly.
The robots are incredibly smart, but they aren’t competing for jobs—they’re creating them. Robots enable more inventory to pass through our fulfilment centres, which means more employees are needed for handling that inventory. Since 2012, we have added tens of thousands of robots to our fulfillment centers, while also adding hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs globally.
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Visit the Amazon fulfilment centre in Bolton
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Amazon MAN3, Bridgewater Avenue, Bolton, UK
Hosts
About
UPDATE (21/2)
I have booked 8 places but will continue to try to secure places if anybody else wishes to sign up.
This is an opportunity to see how Amazon operates its warehouse and fulfils your order from when you place it online to when it arrives with a courier at your house! This is a FREE experience, the visit itself will be 3pm-4.30pm but obviously we need to factor in time to get to Bolton and home again afterwards. I am happy to drive and Karen Walker has also volunteered to drive so there are a few spaces in cars. An unusual and exciting opportunity - browse the info below, I'll also give more detailed info about what to wear etc nearer the time.
Each tour is approximately 45-60 minutes long and covers between 1-2 km. Tour routes may involve walking up and down multiple flights of stairs. We recommend bringing a clear water bottle that can be refilled at water stations along the route.
How does an Amazon warehouse really work?
Come meet us and find out for yourself! Did you know that Amazon fulfilment centres are far more than a traditional warehouse? Some of our buildings are as large as 28 football fields, and can hold millions of products at one time. They are bright, huge buildings with orange robots transporting towers of goods, miles of conveyor belts carrying inventory in every direction, and shipping labels practically flying onto boxes, blown by puffs of air. On a tour, you will see how products in your online shopping cart get from Amazon to you. It’s a symphony of people and technology that allows us to deliver orders quickly and efficiently to customers around the world.
Cutting-edge technology
Amazon Tours allow you to see different types of robots in action and explain how they make the fulfilment process more efficient! Robots not only benefit the people who work alongside them, by reducing the distance we walk. They also improve the shopping experience for our customers by allowing us to hold more inventory and process orders more quickly.
The robots are incredibly smart, but they aren’t competing for jobs—they’re creating them. Robots enable more inventory to pass through our fulfilment centres, which means more employees are needed for handling that inventory. Since 2012, we have added tens of thousands of robots to our fulfillment centers, while also adding hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs globally.
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