Amazon opens Britain's first '4-star' non-food store

Amazon connected Wednesday expanded its concatenation of carnal shops selling non-food products to Britain, opening a caller outlet southeast of London that volition vie with section stores.

The US conglomerate's "4-star" store successful the Bluewater buying promenade successful Kent is stocked with items specified arsenic electronics, toys and books that person astatine slightest a 4-star standing from Amazon's UK customers.

The online retail elephantine successful March launched its archetypal non-US Amazon Fresh convenience store successful London, wherever customers take groceries and simply locomotion out, portion a tracking strategy charges their buying to their bank accounts.

The e-commerce institution already has six specified market stores successful the UK, and 32 successful the United States.

There is besides 1 Amazon Salon successful cardinal London, which allows customers to usage immersive exertion to effort antithetic hairsbreadth styles and colours earlier getting a cut.

Amazon was already powerfully placed successful Britain earlier the pandemic, with increasing dominance successful the transportation sector.

During lockdown, it benefited hugely from the closure of non-essential bricks-and-mortar retail arsenic good arsenic from cardinal changes to user buying habits.

The latest UK motorboat "will nonstop a informing to the manufacture that contention could go adjacent much fierce", said expert Richard Lim, of Retail Economics.

"Despite immoderate of the challenges presented by proviso concatenation disruptions and the interaction of Brexit, Amazon has ever played the agelong game," helium told AFP.

"A physical presence volition supply loyal customers with a frictionless way to purchase, offering them the accidental to touch, feel, acquisition and pick-up online orders in-store."

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