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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Your tote makes its way around the Newegg warehouse via conveyor belt and since the system knows the location of every last product in the warehouse, it can drop off your tote whenever it's near product that you've ordered.
Once the tote arrives, a Newegg staffer will scan the barcode on its side:
Once scanned, lights near the products you've ordered will illuminate telling the employee what and how many items need to be placed inside the tote:
The lower half of the Ok button is illuminated, the display indicates that our tote needs one ASUS P5VD2-VM SE
The rest of the displays remain shut off to help point out what products need to be placed in the tote
Once the system indicates that the tote is full, you simply hit ok and place the tote back on the conveyor belt. The system will continue cycling the tote around the warehouse until the order is complete, at which point it'll be sent off to packing/shipping.
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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.