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This Amazon site handles your biggest, bulkiest purchases

Amazon's Fall River warehouse was built specifically to handle larger products, like kayaks, restaurant sinks and car engines.

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Ben Fox Rubin
Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, reporting on Amazon, e-commerce and mobile payments. He previously worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and got his start at newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Welcome to BOS7

This is Amazon's Fall River fulfillment center, also named BOS7, which opened in September 2016.

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It's the size of 26 football fields

The 1.2 million-square-foot location was built specifically to handle big and bulky items.

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Tens of thousands of packages shipped daily

The location employs 1,300 full-time workers and on a regular day can ship 80,000 to 100,000 items.

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Millions of products stored

Inside the cavernous space, there are seemingly endless rows of multistory shelving filled with pallets of tens of millions of products. 

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Picking up customer orders

This stuff is picked up for packaging and shipping by an army of over 200 powered industrial trucks, which are fitted with forklifts that extend to the highest shelves.

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Storage for long and thin items

Other stuff is stored in the mezzanine, where a bunch of cardboard rolls are filled with long, thin items like curtain rods. 

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Including a javelin

And this javelin, being shown off by BOS7 general manager Rich Hanna.

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For the Shadow Trooper lover

Near those rolls is a shelving space holding a bunch of random products that don't fit well on pallets, like this Star Wars Supreme Edition Shadow Trooper costume.

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They've even got a kitchen sink

Or this two-basin kitchen sink for restaurants.

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The conveyor system

Most of the products at the fulfillment center can go through the conveyor belts and automated system, which seals and stamps the boxes.

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10 miles of conveyor belts

There are more than 10 miles of conveyors weaving throughout the building.

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Hauling Amazon orders

Other items that can't go on conveyors need to be hauled over to a custom packaging machine.

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The BOD machine

This is one of those machines, called a box on demand, or BOD, machine. It can suck up three different sizes of cardboard box material and cut it to exact specifications.

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The machine operator

A machine operator takes out the flat custom boxes as they come out of the machine and hands them off to an assembler.

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The assembler

The assembler then puts together and packs the new boxes.

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BOD crew

Here's one BOD team at the Fall River location.

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That's a wrap

OK, thanks for visiting.

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