CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amazon’s CLT3 facility in Kannapolis is busy with 1,000 employees, some of which are driving dozens of beeping forklift trucks transporting tens of thousands of products ready to be boxed and shipped.
Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. continues to build out its distribution network in the Charlotte metro, having opened the 1.1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Kannapolis last summer. Originally projected to employ 600, the center is today operating at full capacity with about 1,000 employees, said Shannon Todd, the center’s general manager.
Before year’s end, Amazon’s local distribution footprint will be north of 2 million square feet. Could that result in more same-day or one-day delivery options for Amazon.com customers in the Charlotte metro? Todd declined to say yes or no definitively, but that’s one of the company’s long-term goals, he added.
Jobs at the facility, which is the size of 28 football fields, include receivers, stowers, pickers and packers as well as supportive functions in information technology, human resources, quality control and management, Todd said. The center handles both inbound and outbound deliveries.
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