Inside Amazon’s New York warehouse for Prime Now, nothing is organized. Or actually it is, but its driven by a random stocking algorithm. The one-floor warehouse on 34th Street is full of everything marked as currently available on Prime Now, Amazon’s service that has couriers deliver orders within 2 hours.
The 25,000 products aren’t grouped by type. Instead, they’re stashed in cubbies and tracked in a kind of organized chaos. A copy of Hamilton by Ron Chernow, for example, sits next to a box of candy canes or a jar of mayonnaise. Yet it seems to make sense to randomly stock items of similar popularity.
Once an order is placed, warehouse staff remove the products from inventory and bag them. The paper-bagged orders are grouped by their destination — in New York, anywhere in Manhattan or Brooklyn.