‘Amazon Effect’ Is Hiking Pay and Fueling Land Rush in U.S.
“What’s happening here is part of a nationwide boom in warehouse construction reshaping economies that once relied on farms or factories. Between 2013 and 2017, developers added about 848 million square feet of warehouse space, or more than double the roughly 300 million square feet built over the five previous years, according to real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. The number of stock clerks and order fillers—which is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ designation—expanded by almost 311,000 in the decade to 2016.”