Title Arriving today : from factory to front door--why everything has changed about how and what we buy / Christopher Mims.

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New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Edition	First edition.
Description	viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index.
Contents	The gathering storm -- The box -- Ships and other cyborgs -- Coming to America -- Parallel parking 1,200 feet of ship -- Longshoremen against the machine -- The largest robots on earth -- The little-known, rarely understood organizing principle of modern work -- How a management philosophy became our way of life -- Rime of the long-haul trucker -- 100 percent of everything -- How "Hitler's highway" became America's circulatory system -- The future of trucking -- What actually happens inside Amazon's warehouses -- The unbearable complexity of robotic warehousing -- Bezosism -- From Japan with love: origins of the Amazon way -- How warehouse work injures -- Amazon's employee-lite endgame -- The middle mile -- The future of delivery -- The last mile.
Summary	"A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to robots lurking in Amazon's "dark warehouses," here is an eye-opening investigation of the way online commerce is reshaping the globe, rewriting the rules of business, and redefining consumer expectations"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Delivery of goods.
	Shipment of goods.
	Business logistics.
	Electronic commerce.
	Amazon.com (Firm)
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automation.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior.
	Amazon.com (Firm) (OCoLC)fst00752301
	Business logistics. (OCoLC)fst00842759
	Delivery of goods. (OCoLC)fst00889965
	Electronic commerce. (OCoLC)fst00906906
	Shipment of goods. (OCoLC)fst01116313
Added Title	From factory to front door--why everything has changed about how and what we buy
Other Form:	Online version: Mims, Christopher. Arriving today New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2021] 9780062987969 (DLC) 2021018565
ISBN	9780062987952 (hardcover)
	006298795X (hardcover)
	9780062987969 electronic book

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