HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) - One of the biggest shopping days of summer has arrived: Prime Day!
At Amazon’s same-day delivery facility in Hialeah, factory employees are working hard to get those packages to local customers.
“We are super fast,” said Riley Knotts, Amazon Floor Lead. “We can get the customer their order in just a few hours.”
A look inside the warehouse showed robots maneuvering around the floor as they move products for packaging. These high-tech devices are used to work effectively to get the most work done as workers stay in one place to continuously prepare each item for shipment.
“Out here, this is the Amazon Robotics Floor, and what happens here, is the associates pick the order, and then they pack it, send it down where it eventually goes to our dispatch,” Knotts said.
Approximately 300 people work in the building and contract hundreds of drivers to get the packages out quickly.
Employees handled and packaged items as they moved quickly and efficiently as online orders came in. Those packaged items then get moved onto a conveyor belt where a different set of workers handle the sortation process.
A woman in a yellow and blue-striped vest was seen scanning each package as she put them into a gray cart, which then gets picked up by one of the drivers, known as Flex Drivers, who are hired by Amazon to deliver to customers throughout the area.
This is how customers are able to receive their packages within hours.
The site itself delivers around 30,000 packages on a normal day and on Prime Day, they expect 45,000 packages.
As for the deals on the website, items like toys, school supplies, home products and more are available at 30% to 50% off.
This year, there are even South Florida companies that are receiving attention from the retail giant.
“I’m really proud to say we are featuring some small to medium-sized businesses that are local to Miami,” said an Amazon spokesperson. “For example, we have some supplements here, some protein bars, we even have some [camera] lens cases here that are made by businesses in the 305.”
He went on to explain that Amazon is offering about 75% off certain devices.
“On sale we have the Echo Pop, we also have the Echo Show and the Fire TV,” said the spokesman.
Any qualifying items on Amazon.com will get shipped on the same day starting Tuesday until Wednesday.
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