Though the aisles were wide enough for the forklift, the metal and wood shelves loaded with merchandise still loomed overhead. Long corridors of high-priced kitchen accessories filled the warehouse. The cement floors were smooth and cold.
Orders came from fancy catalogs and, of course, from SkyMall. People who flew on business trips or, perhaps, to exotic places, and just couldn't wait to land before shopping ordered $80 cutting boards and $250 toaster ovens. Warehouse pickers took list after list of purchases and plucked them from the mighty shelves to pile onto conveyor belts that rolled to the packers who boxed up the hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise for a far away customer who had already forgotten what he ordered the last time he flew back from Tokyo.
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