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US warehouses get bigger, taller and faster

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Published Fri, Dec 1, 2017 · 09:50 PM

New York

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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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