Amazon Hiring 6K Full-Time Workers for Its Distribution Fullfilment Centers

Those distribution centers will include the ones in Carlisle, Hazelton and Breinigsville.

The workers will pick, pack and ship products to fulfill customer orders.

Currently Amazon has about 50,000 full-time workers at the centers.

Amazon has been opening distribution centers across the country in order to speed up delivery times. Its $99 annual Prime membership service comes with free two-day delivery on many items.

The Seattle-based company employed about 154,100 full-time and part-time workers in total at the end of 2014.

Amazon in general has been expanding its Prime program’s offerings in an effort to grow its membership with services such as grocery delivery, one-hour delivery in some cities, beefed up video streaming and the creation of a Bluetooth speaker called the Echo that syncs with Prime music.

Amazon will be hiring in the following cities:

CONNECTICUT
- Windsor

DELAWARE
- Middletown

INDIANA
- Jeffersonville
- Plainfield
- Whitestown

KENTUCKY
- Hebron
- Lexington

MARYLAND
- Baltimore

NEW JERSEY
- Robbinsville

PENNSYLVANIA
- Breinigsville
- Carlisle
- Hazleton

SOUTH CAROLINA
- West Columbia

TENNESSEE
- Chattanooga
- Murfreesboro

TEXAS
- Haslet

VIRGINIA
- Chester
- Petersburg

WISCONSIN
- Kenosha

Source: The Associated Press/Penn Live

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