Video: How Amazon Arranges Its Warehouses

On a 2016 visit to Amazon's Manhattan Prime Now location, Tech Insider got a peek at how they stock their shelves — and it looks like a total mess. However, there's a perfect reason why it looks that way, and it's part of the reason you can get your order in just an hour.

If you live in one the 32 U.S. cities where Amazon offers their Prime Now service, you can have tens of thousands of items delivered to your door in an hour. However, on a 2016 visit to Amazon's Manhattan Prime Now location, Tech Insider got a peek at how they stock their shelves — and it looks like a total mess. However, there's a perfect reason why it looks that way, and it's part of the reason you can get your order in just an hour. Note: The figures stated in this video are as of that 2016 visit.

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