Get used to it folks. Companies are going to repackage previously announced new jobs and repeat their news, because well, it's the thing to do right now.

American big business is playing President-elect Donald Trump's game and Amazon.com is no different by saying this morning that it is creating 100,000 new full-time jobs with benefits across the U.S. over the next 18 months. Those jobs have been previously reported, but hey, might as well get a new headline out of it and maybe a shout out from the President-elect. Those additional jobs give Amazon a workforce of 280,000 employees by mid-2018. (Wal-Mart has more than 1.5 million employees in the U.S.)

Trump went after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during the campaign because Bezos owns The Washington Post which did some digging on Trump's foundation, or basically, did its job.

There are lots of jobs open in the U.S. right now. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday that there are 5.5 million jobs open in the U.S. That number has been pretty constant throughout the last couple of years.

But you can't blame companies for raising their hands with me-too press releases about how much hiring they're going to do.

Many of Amazon's new jobs will be in fulfillment centers under way in Texas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Florida and New Jersey.

In Texas, since 2013, Amazon has opened seven new fulfillment centers including in Dallas, Coppell, Fort Worth and Haslet. The other Texas centers are in Schertz and San Marcos. All together the Texas centers have more than 10,000 full-time employees. An eighth center is under construction in Houston. The Houston location will create more than 1,000 new full-time jobs. Amazon also has 500 employees in Austin at a corporate satellite office and said it has openings for hundreds more.

Truth is Texans are really taking to Amazon's business model and that's driving local job growth. Here are two statistics that illustrate how much from the just completed holiday shopping season:

-- Amazon said its Prime members in Dallas ordered more items with Prime Now than any other city in the U.S. during November and December 2016.

-- The Haslet fulfillment center had the largest U.S. 2016 holiday workforce with more than 8,000 employees fulfilling customer orders during the peak.

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