Gadgetory

almost anything you can imagine that you would want we might sell it this is a industrial restaurant - Basin stainless steel sink and this would be delivered via like a scheduled delivery we're here in an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Fall River Massachusetts south of Boston what's special about this location is that it handles big and bulky items one of the weirdest things that I had never seen before was a 70 pound bean bag this bean bag was so large it had to go on its own palate rich Anna who runs this fulfillment center showed us some of the quirky and heavy items Amazon ships from there including this javelin like you would still offer two-day shipping for something like that yeah this is not too big this is the pool stool you put in your pool and you sit on it that's exactly what it is and there's a table coming soon and we will sell it this is a kegerator for a home brewer it's got some cooling coils to chill your beer life-size supreme edition shadow trooper costume this would be a custom box light saber barbecue tongs I did not know this existed and there's a button that gives them lightsaber sound effects another section of the warehouse includes the custom packaging machines where teams of workers measuring cut packages specifically for items that don't fit the regular size boxes it's stuff that ordinarily doesn't fit any of the preset boxes we have so after the Pickers pick the item and the first person on the line measures the item with measuring tape or this preset measuring measurements there it's usually a lot of bigger stuff or weirdly shaped objects so we see a lot of grilles car seats we see a lot of those the custom boxing machine runs 24/7 and can make up to 200 boxes an hour we want to be that one place you can go to find anything that you want and if there's somebody out there that wants to buy an Easter Island statue we want to be able to sell it to them Amazon selling all this random stuff may seem a little strange but it's part of ecommerce company's efforts to get you to buy anything and everything online this is Ben Fox Ruben for cnet.com