Inside Newegg NJ: A New Warehouse and Another Contest
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 20, 2008 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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The Warehouse
The NJ warehouse, just like the one I toured in LA, has product segregated into three areas: high value items, large items and everything else. Items like CPUs and memory, expensive products that can easily grow feet and walk away are kept inside "the cage" and only certain employees are allowed to work in there:
Tons of AMD and Intel CPUs line these shelves, I managed to secure a few for you all...
The large items (things like TVs and cases) are kept in the back of the warehouse:
Despite the quantity of TVs, monitors and cases, even Newegg employees must order from the website. No product is allowed to leave the warehouse without an order attached to it, and even then it must be delivered by UPS or FedEx, it can't be hand-carried out.
All the rest of the products line shelves of the warehouse, snaked through by conveyor belts that are used to fill orders.
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Darkk - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
For those who are cringing about bubble wrap and peanuts for OEM hard drives. Well, when I ordered a hard drive a few months ago the drive was shipped from the CA warehouse and they didn't use either packaging at all. Instead, they used special "wadded" heavy duty paper wrapping which is very sturdy and it arrived perfectly intact. Not sure why they didn't do this at all warehouses but it was perfect for the drives. Also very friendly to the environment.I've ordered alot of items from NewEgg over the years and most of them usually come from NJ or CA warehouse since I live in northern CA.
Darkk
puffpio - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
you wouldn't happen to have a picture of the boxing machine? that thing looks like it boxes super fastpuffpio - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
err picture = videoMScrip - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
I love your warehouse... but 2 things made me cringe in those pictures; the bubble wrap and the peanuts. I'm speaking of course about the way you ship OEM hard drives.Newegg! You're a BILLION dollar company! Please invest in some foam or plastic hard drive carriers! It makes me sick to order an OEM hard drive and have it taped up in bubble wrap and thrown in a box with some peanuts. That's ridiculous.
I buy everything from you, but I am so unhappy with your hard drive shipping policies.
strikeback03 - Thursday, May 22, 2008 - link
Why? Every hard drive I have bought from them has had a anti-static bag or plastic case from the manufacturer, the bubblewrap is just around that. Don't see any risk there, so long as you don't open the hard drive and drop it in the peanuts.m3rdpwr - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
I did not know about the NJ depot.Usually I get my order in 3 days being in Mass.
My order last week arrived next day.
This would explain it!
-Mario
laixer - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
I'm in NY and most of the stuff I have been ordering has come from NJ for a long time.I'm really disappointed that the contest is not open to New York residents.
H8ff0000 - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
Same here, on both statements...Newegg is awesome, this contest is not. I'm curious why we are shun from the giveaway.
AmbroseAthan - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
We are shunned from all NewEgg contests :(. Any give-away contests at NewEgg have always had New York exempted. Must be something in the state laws :-/.Polynikes - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
Another of many strikes against NY. I'm getting the hell out of this shitty state as soon as I graduate from RIT.