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Amazon Unpacked is a series by photographer Ben Roberts who was given the assignment of documenting the huge Amazon warehouse that was recently established at the small ex-mining town of Rugeley, UK. 

Workers in Amazon’s warehouses – or “associates in Amazon’s fulfilment centres” as the company would put it – are divided into four main groups. There are the people on the “receive lines” and the “pack lines”: they either unpack, check and scan every product arriving from around the world, or they pack up customers’ orders at the other end of the process. Another group stows away suppliers’ products somewhere in the warehouse. “You’re sort of like a robot, but in human form,” said the Amazon manager. “It’s human automation, if you like.”