
The new Amazon center on the north edge of Davenport is expected to open in August and hire 1,000 people for what will be its second Iowa robotics fulfillment center. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON
With all of the economic turmoil happening at retailers post-pandemic and the well-documented coverage of Amazon’s concerted effort to reduce its warehousing and distribution channels, we were uncertain if its newly built, massive fulfillment center in Davenport would ever get opened.
Amazon, which had doubled the size of its fulfillment network during the pandemic, began pulling back on its expansion last year as sales slowed, reported…

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