“picker”—walks around to fill someone’s order, the scanner in her hand will tell her where the closest item is and then the fastest way to get to the next item after that. the job still requires a tremendous amount of walking—it has been estimated that some pickers end up covering...
“picker,” his job was to hover at the dim perimeter of a cyclone fence and retrieve customers’ orders from the robot-borne storage pods that came to his station. he would stoop, squat, or climb a small ladder to grab items and then rush to place them in one of the yellow bins ...
At the warehouse, Jeff was a picker, fetching orders to be shipped to Amazon customers. A handheld scanner gun told him what he needed to pull and the exact aisle and shelf where he would find it. Since the Chester facility covers 1.1 million square feet, the equivalent of roughly 18 foo...