This is a book about rubbish tips, self-storage warehouses, out-of-town business parks and, yes, the uninhabitable neighbourhoods under flight paths.
"UPS has a warehouse out in Salt Lake City, where all the lost packages end up going.
The company, adMart, delivers from its warehouses, cutting out the middleman.
Staff will complete orders by pushing trolleys round a warehouse laid out like a store.
Over six weeks this summer, the pair roamed the Lower Lea Valley filming warehouses, burnt-out cars and overgrown canals.
Its plant in Tuscaloosa had to halt production for weeks after the April 27 tornado destroyed a warehouse, blew out windows and knocked out power.
This is harder than it sounds: Collating prices on, say, jeans may mean reconciling the $29.99 retail price at the warehouse spat out by the inventory software with the $30 retail price entered into the store-based retail system.
Boylston gave up his keys, and the women opened the warehouse, took out the coffee they required, and drove away.
After three years of attracting increasingly bigger crowds, in 1995 Steve had the warehouse fitted out to meet all the relevant safety regulations.
For the children of Afghanistan alone, following the tragic events of September 11, the Copenhagen warehouse sent out 27 charter flights over 15 weeks.
I went with Sue to one of those home-improvement warehouses to pick out what I wanted to plant.
