Amazon plans to add several UK delivery spokes in the UK next year as it seeks to improve the speed and capacity of its deliveries.
The company will add four sites in the North West, South West, Midlands and Yorkshire that will act as local hubs and provide 'more capacity and flexibility'. The development raises the prospect that Amazon will use the hubs to introduce additional levels of service for customers which could mean more specific delivery times and an ever more rapid service.
Amazon launched Amazon Logistics this year which has already seen it open a number of small delivery stations - each about 50,000 square feet - including Birmingham, Oxford, Milton Keynes and several in London.
The new sites will employ about 75 people in addition to the 170 created at existing local hubs. Amazon says the system is also creating an extra 1,000 indirect positions with local logistics and delivery partners.
The local hubs are separate from the eight larger fulfilment centres operated by Amazon in the UK which include Doncaster, Dunfermline near Edinburgh, Gourock in Inverclyde, Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, Marston Gate near Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley in Staffordshire and Swansea.
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