Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and nearby rural towns like it are being drastically transformed into distribution hotspots for major retailers like Amazon and Walmart - to the dismay of some longtime residents.

With its endless acres of farmland, the tiny town is seemingly the perfect location for huge warehouses - and it is at most a day's drive away from one-third of the US population and half of Canada's, making it the ideal delivery truck epicenter.

Many farmers who owned the land companies wanted to build on were unable to refuse the bags of cash they were offered to sell up, Bloomberg reported. But this has led to tension among locals. 

Some residents acknowledge the presence of industry titans has led to a boom in jobs. Others are furious at the farmers for 'selling out' and forever changing the idyllic character of the town they grew up in, with farms destroyed for warehouses and hills flattened for parking lots.

The job growth is hard to argue with after dozens of big name corporations opened warehouses in the Shippensburg area.

P&G, which owns Charmin, Crest, Gillette and Pampers, was one of the first to do so in 2014, followed by Amazon.com, DHL, FedEx, Home Depot, Kohler, Lowe's, Office Depot, Pepsi, SC Johnson, Staples, Target, Ulta Beauty, Unilever and UPS, among many others.

Shippensburg isn't the only town in the state that's being overhauled in order to keep up with the nation's massive consumption.

In fact, Pennsylvania has added more than 170 million square feet of warehouse space in the last 10 years, double the amount of office space in San Francisco.

What's happening in Shippensburg is similar to what's already happened to California's Inland Empire, which used to be a major center of agriculture. Now, this area of southern California is the nation's warehouse capital, home to Amazon and Walmart facilities.

When Shippensburg was solely agrarian, locals had three typical career paths - farming, the military or manufacturing. But now high school graduates can take warehousing jobs that pay as much as $35 per hour.

If they do decide to go to college, Shippensburg University even offers a supply chain and logistics major. 

Students who get that degree have a 99 percent job placement rate, with most graduates receiving a $60,000 to $90,000-a-year offer, the program's chair Robert Setaputra told Bloomberg.