12 Amazing Facts About Amazon's Role In The Economy That Show Why Obama Spoke There

This Phoenix, Arizona-based fulfillment center could contain 28 football fields.

Last Cyber Monday, Amazon sold more than 200 items per second.

Amazon brought in 50,000 additional employees for its insane holiday season last year.

Here's a worker picking items from the shelf. She's one of the 70,000 employees working at Amazon's U.S.-based fulfillment centers last year during the holidays.

Two items in the 1.2 million square-foot fulfillment center might be miles apart.

Amazon employees ride on tricycles to get to faraway items.

Your average fulfillment center employee gets paid between $11 and $14 per hour.

Here's a worker sending off items on the conveyor belt for packing and shipping. She's one of the 2,000 employees that worked on Cyber Monday to ship out orders.

The record for most items moved from the shelves to the loading docks in one week is 2,086,548.

These conveyor belts have to move items through the centers at speeds of about 20 mph.

Amazon owns 10 percent of North American e-commerce. Office Depot, Stapes, Apple, Dell, Walmart, Sears, and Liberty all own another 10 percent of the market - combined.

Source: FrugalDad

Last year, when Amazon's site went down for 49 minutes the company missed sales of nearly $5.7 million.

Source: Wired

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