Did you know you can tour the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Salt Lake City for free? The fulfillment center is the place where they box up your Amazon orders and ship them to your door. The tour is really cool because of the cutting edge technology. We were amazed at how efficient and effective the Amazon Fulfillment Center was at getting packages to customers. Add an Amazon Tour in Salt Lake City to your list of must do things.
Lots of Rules
The first thing you should know is that all tours follow pretty strict rules to keep visitors safe. For example, you must wear closed toe shoes, and long hair must be pulled up so that it doesn’t dangle. You stay in certain lines on the floor to keep you out of the way, and children under 6 are not allowed on the tour. Also, you’re not allowed to take pictures on the tour. At first, we wondered at this last rule, but then we realized that this policy keeps people from stepping out of line and posing with an active work area.
The Tour
The tour actually takes around 90 minutes and requires you to walk around one mile. There are some flights of stairs, so this tour might not be for everyone. First, you sit down and watch a brief introductory video. Then you receive headphones that link back to the tour guide. All the headphones in your group connect so that you can all hear information about the Center. You can also ask questions, but mostly, the headphones provide noise blocking from all the loud machinery. Our tour guide answered any question that were asked and there were a lot of questions.
The tour is super interesting. You are able to see all of the different areas in the fulfillment center from where they receive products from vendors, to the end where they put them in containers to ship out to you. We won’t spoil too much of tour for you, but we enjoyed seeing all of the automated and robotic parts of the system. The robots shuffle the containers by reading bar codes on the floor. And we were amazed at the conveyor belts that know when to shoot packages off into the correct area, and the technology that does the packaging and labeling for all of the different sizes in seconds.
How to Book and Other Info
If you have any interest in how a modern automated business runs, the free Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour is for you.
- Make sure to book reservation beforehand. You cannot walk up for a tour.
- Book here: Amazon Tours
- Location: 777 North 5600 West, Salt Lake City
- If you have accessibility need, please contact them before and they will arrange accommodations for you.
