Amazon Feeling California Love, Opening 10th Fulfillment Center

Amazon is really feeling California, as the massive online retailer recently announced that it plans to open its 10th fulfillment center in the state, this time in Sacramento, according to Chain Store Age.

Amazon’s latest 855,000-square-foot facility will create more than 1,000 full-time jobs, according to Amazon. It is the fourth such fulfillment center that Amazon has announced in California in the past four months.

“Our ongoing expansion in California, which started just four short years ago, is the result of two things: incredible customers and an outstanding workforce in this state,” Akash Chauhan, Amazon’s VP of North American operations, said in a statement. “Customers are seeing, on a regular basis, Amazon’s customer obsession, innovative culture and operational excellence — all of which is driven by the 14,000-plus Californians who work in Amazon fulfillment centers across the state. We are incredibly proud of what has been accomplished in California.”

Amazon’s Sacramento fulfillment center will be used to pick, pack and ship “smaller customer items,” like books, toys and smaller electronic products.

Amazon operates about 100 fulfillment centers across the U.S., and it is just the latest sign of the massive online retailer’s continued expansion efforts.

A recent study pegged Amazon to be the most dominant retailer in the apparel business by mid-2017.

Amazon has recently begun an expansion into the lucrative private-label food retail market (which accounted for $118.4 billion in sales in the U.S. in 2015).

And the company still seems to be gearing up for its ambitious Amazon Prime Air drone delivery service.

And, hey, maybe having more and more fulfillment centers across the country — where drones can fly out of to ship packages — will help that drone delivery program move forward, too.