UK Online Sales Experience Boom

[Kristijntje]

SHROUDED in autumnal mist, within earshot of the din of the M1 motorway in Bedfordshire, extends an enormous, grey windowless building that covers an area six times as large as St Paul’s cathedral, or seven times the size of the Royal Navy’s biggest aircraft carrier.

Amazon.co.uk’s “fulfilment centre” at Ridgmont, just south of Milton Keynes, is well into a pre-Christmas recruitment drive that will treble the size of its workforce in 12 weeks to deal with up to 450,000 parcels dispatched on each of the busiest days in the festive season.

The 1,000 students and temporary workers arriving at Ridgmont and its sister site at Gourock, west of Glasgow, are hard evidence of the explosive 25% to 30% annual growth in internet retailing...

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