Arriving today from factory to front door--why everything has changed about how and what we buy
"A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to...
| Main Author: | Mims, Christopher (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Harper Business, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to robots lurking in Amazon's "dark warehouses," here is an eye-opening investigation of the way online commerce is reshaping the globe, rewriting the rules of business, and redefining consumer expectations"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780062987952 006298795X |