Just how do they deliver all kinds of products so fast? They can't have absolutely everything in one warehouse ready to deliver at a moments notice? These were just a few of the questions we had when we were invited for a tour of Amazon's fulfilment centre next to Manchester Airport this week.
Many of us will have been logging onto Amazon's website the last few weeks for Black Friday bargains or early Christmas presents, or will have at least seen the iconic cardboard boxes at front doors or on postage boxes. But just how do they do it?
At the MAN1 fulfilment centre there are four floors packed with hundreds of workers each stocking 'shelves' and packing boxes and a mind-blowing amount of robots making it all tick. There are more than three miles of conveyor belts carrying a multitude of different products around the vast warehouse on the journey before you even click buy to the trucks to your door.
