1. This is what the Amazon fulfilment centre in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, looked like yesterday (Tuesday 25 November).
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3. The staff at the company have just 29 days until Christmas. This is what the warehouses look like during Black Friday Deals Week.
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5. This is expected to be the busiest week of the year for the retailer – at least 4 million items are expected to be ordered.
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6. The staff are working 24/7 to pack items up as millions take advantage of the company's discounts.
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8. The company brought in the discount week in 2010.
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10. It'll be followed by Cyber Monday on 1 December, expected to be the busiest day ever for the retailer.
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12. Last year the retailer saw more than 4.1 million items ordered at a rate of around 47 items per second.
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14. It meant a delivery lorry left one of Amazon’s eight UK fulfilment centres on average every 1 minute and 33 seconds.
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16. The other UK centres are in Rugeley, Gourock, Doncaster, Dunfermline, Hemel Hempstead, Marston Gate, and Swansea.
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18. The company has also opened a giant 210,000 square foot office in Holborn, on 12 floors.
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Alan White is a news editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
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