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MONTREAL — The Amazon sort centre known as YUL9 is a model of the engineering and tech-enabled logistics typical of the company. On roughly 6.5 hectares of former farmland west of Montreal, about 500 workers and a fleet of Amazon robots perform the relentless, freakishly efficient dance that has helped make the e-commerce multinational one of the most successful companies the world has ever seen.

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