Moving almost $50 billion of merchandise every year, Amazon is the unofficial retailer king of the web. Some of what is sold on Amazon.com (or any of its country-specific websites) is done via Amazon Marketplace — third parties selling their products on Amazon. However, much of what is sold on Amazon is sold by Amazon itself. To facilitate the movement of so many products, Amazon has various warehouses throughout the United States (and in other countries or regions that Amazon operates in). Ever wonder what an Amaze warehouse looks like? Wonder no longer…

Damn, Amazon. And to think you were once a humble bookstore.

Some warehouses use robots to help pick the right items from their respective locations. Not Amazon. Amazon uses no picking robots but rather depends on humans armed with barcode scanners for item picking and packing, utilizing a system known as chaotic storage.

Did someone say chaotic? Indeed, it is.

[via IBT]