JOB GAINS: Conveyor belts and robots in the vast Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Johnston assist more than 1,000 full-time workers in handling 850,000 packages a day. / COURTESY AMAZON.COM INC.

With recession talk again hovering over the Ocean State, it’s hard to see Johnston’s massive Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center as anything other than a godsend for the town. Construction of the facility that opened last November created 2,200 jobs. And the company has already filled 1,000 of 1,500 projected full-time jobs, making it Johnston’s second-largest

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