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A tour of Amazon’s Kent warehouse a squat 850,000 square foot building that runs on for several blocks in a sparsely populated part of the city doesn’t settle every contradiction.
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Cedric Ross, an Amazon senior manager giving the tour alongside Amazon PR manager Melanie Etches, explained the security measures as „industry standard.“
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