This isn’t news. I live in a small town with a fulfillment center.
Thing is, companies that move this sort of facility to small towns have to be a little careful. They can burn through the entire employable population of the town.
I used to work for a company that designed and implemented call centers in these third tier markets (low cost of living and low wages). They actually had to close down and move facilities because there was nobody left to employ that had not already been fired. And, on a related note, they found that if a condition of employment was drug testing, they would be hard pressed to find any employees at all.
I think this speaks to my own personal opinion that the warehouse staff will eventually be mostly replaced by robotics. I think we’ve all seen those videos. ;)
I’m in a rural area and all the young people that will actually work, have all worked at the same places multiple times. Convenient stores, grocery stores and old folks homes.
Pretty much everyone has worked at the Royal Oak plant down the road at some point in their lives.
I’ve always said Rats are completely immune to charges of hypocrisy. Jeff Bezos who runs Amazon and the Washington post is hero to the left.
That is funny (in a very perverted way) that they used up all the potential employees in a town and had to move to the next town. Sounds like locusts descending on a town.
Had this happen in SW Virginia, Dish moved in 10 years ago and are now down to 50 people