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US warehouses get bigger, taller and faster
Published Fri, Dec 1, 2017 · 09:50 PM
New York
THOSe boxes piling up on your doorstep over the holidays don't ship from Santa's workshop.
As Americans spend more money shopping online, real estate developers are sinking record amounts of money into new warehouse space, building bigger, taller structures to meet the needs of e-commerce - and the robots that help it along.
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