Amazon Wants To Ship You Anything In 30 Minutes. It's Going To Need A Lot Of Robots

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Wed, 11/20/2019 - 11:40am

Amazon is burning through billions to get you stuff faster. It'll spend more than $35 billion on shipping costs this year, more than twice what it spent two years ago.

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