Christmas Creates Amazon Towns

December 21, 2011

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Behind the piles of smiley-faced Amazon.com boxes arriving on doorsteps this holiday season are workers like Ray and Sarann Williams. The retired couple are part of the swarm of seasonal employees taking up temporary residence in this small desert city — home to one of Amazon's warehouses — to help the online-retail giant fulfill its influx of holiday orders....

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Source: The Wall Street Journal

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