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How one-click shopping is creating Amazon warehouse towns: ‘We’re disposable humans’
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Three generations of Arah Parker’s family have lived in her pleasant, yellow-hued home, where there used to be a clear view of the San Gabriel mountains from the kitchen window.
There used to be – until the country’s hunger for online shopping swallowed the neighborhood.
Four massive Amazon warehouses – ranging from 500,000 to nearly 900,000 sq ft – now surround this historically Black community, as do distribution centers for Target, Under Armour, Monster Energy and Keeco textiles. Her home is now boxed in on three sides by concrete block buildings and the quiet road out front has been paved into a four-lane expressway rumbling with delivery trucks.
The ancient mountains are obscured by a “big, block wall” and more often than not, they are
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