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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Mant - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
You are a tool.Id like to shoot you with that peanut gun...not really
MIKEMIKE - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
the link seems borked for me.Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Fixed :)Take care,
Anand
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Boo. :)Mant - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Yeah, PLEASE fix that link for the giveaway!DigitalFreak - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
If you can't figure out how to reconstruct the link, you can't enter. It's part of the contest.huges84 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I don't know if this is a local/ISP issue ro what, but I was on page 3 of this article and when I clicked on page 4 it just loaded the top and side Anandtech theme, no article. I retried it several times and no dice. Then I reloaded page 3 (which had loaded fine before) and I got the same problem. Then I reloaded the home page and it is no longer there either. :(huges84 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
BTW when I try to access a page in the article it sends me here:http://search.anandtech.com/search?site=atweb_coll...">http://search.anandtech.com/search?site...om=%3CHO...
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Sorry, it got pushed live before it was finished :) It's back up again.Take care,
Anand
segagenesis - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Having been a NewEgg customer for about three years now, it was nice to see some insight at how things go on behind the scenes (alot different than I expected). By the way, the larger image links are broken :/