On our way to a seminar in Maryland, we stopped at a rest area in New Jersey. Right behind the rest area was a bleak Crate and Barrel warehouse that extended more than a quarter of a mile in one direction; behind it was another bleak warehouse, an Amazon fulfillment center, again more than a quarter of a mile long.
We mostly think of big tech as software and computer companies. But huge fulfillment centers are also a part of the big tech landscape — all that merchandise we buy online goes through physical plants like these.