Amazon is on track be the world's first fully automated fulfilment company

By the time you've picked your Amazon parcel up off of your doorstep and gone to find yourself a pair of scissors to open it up with you'll have already spent more time with your parcel than all of Amazon's employees combined. Many people already know that Amazon is obsessed with automation, but what fewer people know is that one of Amazon's obsessions is with the details – the minutiae. While many of their competitors look at how they can chop minutes out of a process Amazon does that too, but they also put an incredible amount of focus into chopping out as many seconds as they can too – whether it's patenting new machines that create the perfectly sized box, or the right length of tape. And when you add all those saved seconds up, and extrapolate them across Amazon's vast network, all of a sudden you're saving centuries in time – and money, of course. The rest of the work is done by robots and fully automated systems.