Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 14, 2006 3:31 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
Newegg - The Green e-Tailer
Newegg's rolling conveyer system has built in box recycling support:
The tray suspended above the rolling conveyer (pictured above) is where the workers place empty boxes. Workers on the floor above simply toss their boxes through the holes in the floor:
The boxes are then sent down this chute where they are collected for recycling:
As you can guess, Newegg goes through a lot of cardboard during their day to day. They go through so much that they've got their own compactor outside that compresses all of the recyclable cardboard together and prepares it for pickup.
But back to your order; the tub moves along until it is complete, once complete it drops down to the express line and goes directly to the end of the assembly line.
The elevator down to the express lane is behind the tinted glass seen above. The express lane itself is seen below:
If you pay the $2.99 for express shipping then the system automatically allocates you a blue tub and wherever possible your tub gets priority:
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jamesbond007 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Thanks Anand and NewEgg for the great pics and tour! As a long-time NewEgg customer, it was very intriguing to read the article and gaze at the pictures because I've always wondered how a place like that worked. =)Cheers!
~Travis W.
flexy - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
this looks sooooooooooooooo much like my f****g work - except that the items at newegg are approx. 10000000 times more interesting than what we deal with every day ;)bbomb - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I worked on an aembly line putting together boxes for vent hoods to go in. That was the longest fucking week of my life. I wonder why the vent hood people didnt have the box-putter-together machine.PandaBear - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
The last company I worked for used to be part of Mitsubishi, and you would be surprised how much cheaper our shipping was compare to you going to Kinko's yourself, it was almost 1/2 off.I would imagine Newegg got a deal with UPS that makes it much cheaper than FedEx Ground.
Reflex - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Been a customer of theirs for years, pretty much since Egghead went under(remember them?). Service has always been great and they are the first place I reccomend to techs and resellers. Sure beats the old days of having to have a tax ID and account with a distributer.Powermoloch - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Thanks for the article Anand...really appreciate it. I didn't expect the warehouse to look like that !cw42 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
pics coulda been better, but AWESOME ARTICLE.Thanks newegg.
bob661 - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Pics looked good to me.StevenYoo - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
nice read.man, part of me really wants to win that CPU!
but the other part of me doesn't so I don't have to buy a new mobo, etc.
NeonAura - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Contest for AMD X2s.. excellent :)And, there shouldn't be many entries outside of Anandtech, because the contest entry isn't open for a long time and because the link's broken. Noobs won't get it :)