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What’s Happening: At 2.4 million package deliveries every day, the U.S.’s largest delivery system is plotting a New York City takeover with at least nine new warehouses. This pandemic-induced e-commerce frenzy has made New York a high-stakes testing ground for urban deliveries, with density being both a draw and logistical nightmare. In a city where shuttered stores are the new norm, there’s a critical need for scaled-up e-commerce infrastructure.
The Download: Amazon needs more warehouse space to satisfy customer expectations for speedy delivery. Across the five boroughs, the e-commerce behemoth has acquired nine new warehouses, including a million-square-foot goliath in Queens that joins 12 warehouses citywide and two dozen new ones in the suburbs.
In New York, as shoppers went online, Amazon went on a warehouse-buying spree.
An employee at Amazon’s distribution center in Staten Island in November.Credit.Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
March 4, 2021
As the pandemic gripped New York City, it propelled an enormous surge in online shopping. Amazon, the giant online retailer, went shopping too.
Amazon has spent the pandemic embarking on a warehouse shopping spree in New York, significantly expanding its footprint.
It has snatched up at least nine new warehouses in the city, including a behemoth rising in Queens that, at one million-plus square feet, will be its largest in New York, and today has at least 12 warehouses in the five boroughs. And it has added more than two dozen warehouses in suburbs surrounding the city.
March 4, 2021
When the pandemic gripped New York City, it propelled an enormous surge in online shopping that has not waned, even in a metropolis where stores are rarely far away. People who regularly bought online are now buying more, while those who started ordering to avoid exposure to the virus have been won over by the advantages.
The abrupt shift in shopping patterns has made New York a high-stakes testing ground for urban deliveries, with its sheer density both a draw and a logistical nightmare.
It has also highlighted the need for an unglamorous yet critical piece of the e-commerce infrastructure: warehouse space to store and sort packages and satisfy customer expectations for faster and faster delivery.