426 orders per second: inside Amazon on Cyber Monday

One of the two Amazon fulfillment centers in Delaware was hectic on Cyber Monday. That’s according to a report from WHYY’s NewsWorks, which went inside the $90 million Middletown facility on its busiest day of the year.
According to an Amazon spokeswoman quoted in the article, Amazon customers last Cyber Monday ordered 426 items per second. “We actually anticipate that today is going to be bigger,” Amazon’s Kiesha Cochrane said.
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Some 2,000 people work at the 1 million-square-foot facility, according to the NewsWorks report.
You can actually tour the Middletown fulfillment center on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The tour program, which promises to reveal “the magic that happens after you click buy on Amazon,” was launched earlier this year.

Amazon’s Middletown facility is about the size of 28 football fields. (Photo by Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)