Have you ever wondered about the journey your Christmas presents go on before they arrive at your door?
Maybe not, but if you've ever bought anything off Amazon, there's a good chance it may have travelled through one of three of the retail giant's buildings in the North East as part of around £1.7 billion the corporation has invested in the region since 2010. ChronicleLive visited the newest fulfilment centre at Folingsby in Gateshead, which opened in September 2021, for a look around ahead of Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Known as NCL1 (Amazon's buildings are named after the nearest airport), the centre is the size of six football pitches and and has 11km on conveyor belts to transports good around the centre. Most importantly, it has meant 1,300 permanent jobs and hundreds more temporary vacancies this busy festive season.
