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03112aam a2200517 i 4500 001 873FE06A12C511EC9889D91B53ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210911010009 008 210521s2021 nyu e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021018564 020 $a 006298795X 020 $a 9780062987952 035 $a (OCoLC)1252736954 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d IFK $d JAS $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 388/.044 $2 23 100 1 $a Mims, Christopher, $e author. 245 10 $a Arriving today : $b from factory to front door -- why everything has changed about how and what we buy / $c Christopher Mims. 246 30 $a From factory to front door -- why everything has changed about how and what we buy 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Business, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 325 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The gathering storm -- The box -- Ships and other cyborgs -- Coming to America -- Parallel parking 1,200 feet of ship -- Longshoremen against the machine -- The largest robots on earth -- The little-known, rarely understood organizing principle of modern work -- How a management philosophy became our way of life -- Rime of the long-haul trucker -- 100 percent of everything -- How "Hitler's highway" became America's circulatory system -- The future of trucking -- What actually happens inside Amazon's warehouses -- The unbearable complexity of robotic warehousing -- Bezosism -- From Japan with love: origins of the Amazon way -- How warehouse work injures -- Amazon's employee-lite endgame -- The middle mile -- The future of delivery -- The last mile. 520 $a "A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to robots lurking in Amazon's "dark warehouses," here is an eye-opening investigation of the way online commerce is reshaping the globe, rewriting the rules of business, and redefining consumer expectations"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Delivery of goods. 650 0 $a Shipment of goods. 650 0 $a Business logistics. 650 0 $a Electronic commerce. 610 20 $a Amazon.com (Firm) 941 $a 13 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020953.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409041143.0 952 $l NVPB663 $d 20221125010154.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024621.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518025959.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220203010602.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20220104012050.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211203010327.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010554.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20211102020746.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20211002010738.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20210921010105.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210911010228.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=873FE06A12C511EC9889D91B53ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search