Amazon.com leased a mechanized distribution
facility near the Atlanta airport that will allow the
company to reduce standard shipping times to customers in key markets in the
Southeast.
The Georgia facility is the fifth new Amazon.com distribution center to be
announced this year and means that by the 1999 holiday shopping season,
Amazon.com will have more than 3.5 million square feet of space at seven
distribution centers nationwide.
The 800,000-square-foot Georgia facility will be the largest Amazon.com
distribution facility to date and will allow the retailer of books, videos
and music to increase the number products kept on hand for immediate shipment
to customers.
The facility will be leased by Amazon.com and is expected to begin operations
by the end of the third quarter of 1999. Terms of the lease were not
disclosed.