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Virtual marketplace Amazon is getting a little closer to home. The world's biggest online retailer announced Tuesday that it has chosen a site in Robbinsville, New Jersey, just outside Trenton, for its new distribution center. The 1-million-square-foot center will create hundreds of jobs and is slated to open in early 2014. [6ABC]