These photos are from coverage of Amazon by NPR and Sixty Minutes. They illustrate Amazon's policy of investing only in things that enhance the customer experience and create loyalty, the improved density and efficiency of their warehouse/fulfillment centers and experiments with 30-minute delivery of orders by autonomous drones.
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| 1999 warehouse and fulfillment center |
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| 2013 warehouse and fulfillment center |
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| Robots scurrying around with picked items |
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| Amazon corporate office, 1999 |
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| Jeff Bezos' makeshift desk, 1999 |
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| Bezos' hopes for 30-minute delivery via drone in 4-5 years |
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| A delivery drone prototype |
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| Eight electric motors |
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| Taking off from a fulfillment center |
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| Autonomous flight |
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| Landing, dropping package and leaving for home |
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