# Amazon distribution center: positive or negative effect on nearby home prices? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 10, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248 "2020-01-10T20:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrFloppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@MrFloppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFloppy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248/41 "2020-01-14T17:26:38Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Do you work for Dematic? No, but you’re close 🙂 We have our machines in Dematic facilities though as well as our own so I have been in both. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248/42 "2020-01-14T18:22:36Z")
> [@MrFloppy](#): > > No, but you’re close 🙂 We have our machines in Dematic facilities though as well as our own so I have been in both. LPA’s? Auto-bagger? RF scanners? Voice units? I figure it’s not something like a sorter (physical), pick to light/put to light or something like an ASRS because I think Dematic makes those. ---
**Author:** ![MrFloppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@MrFloppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFloppy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248/43 "2020-01-14T18:33:01Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > LPA’s? > Auto-bagger? > RF scanners? > Voice units? > > I figure it’s not something like a sorter (physical), pick to light/put to light or something like an ASRS because I think Dematic makes those. Intelligrated. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248/44 "2020-01-14T19:50:15Z")
> [@MrFloppy](#): > > Intelligrated. Ah, I assumed that wasn’t it because you said you had your machines in some Dematic facilities, I assumed it was pretty much one or the other for those two companies. Do very many facilities have a mixture of equip+systems? ---
**Author:** ![MrFloppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@MrFloppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFloppy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248/45 "2020-01-15T16:43:36Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Ah, I assumed that wasn’t it because you said you had your machines in some Dematic facilities, I assumed it was pretty much one or the other for those two companies. > > Do very many facilities have a mixture of equip+systems? Dematic doesn’t have a tote stacker, so they use ours. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248/46 "2020-01-15T17:23:31Z")
> [@MrFloppy](#): > > Dematic doesn’t have a tote stacker, so they use ours. One of those is probably in our future. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248/47 "2020-01-15T21:09:34Z")
> [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](#): > > You’re falling for a most typical lie. > > “FT salary” – meaning full-time salary. But by far most of their workers are NOT full-rime, they are only hourly part-time. Which also means they don’t get benefits lik health plans, sick leave, vacation, etc. There’s an FC nearby and I used to work there; my nephew still does. They have NO part time positions - it’s a constant complaint, because there are plenty of college students who’d work weekends if they could. Not even the temps they hire for Peak get an option to work part-time. But go ahead… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-distribution-center-positive-or-negative-effect-on-nearby-home-prices/846248.md?page=2)