Amazon to open four UK warehouses worth £40billion after high street deaths
Amazon has announced a staggering £40billion investment in the UK to build new processing centres in what is being dubbed as resounding show of confidence in the British economy. The eye-watering sum will be spent building new fulfilment centres, which is expected to create thousands of jobs.
The e-commerce behemoth is already on the UK's biggest employers with 75,000 workers on its books.
Two major warehouses will be built in the East Midlands and are set to open in 2027. Amazon is also pressing ahead with previously announced sites in Hull and Northampton, with each site tipped to create around 2,000 jobs.
Funds are also being poured into improving logistics, technology and media infrastructure.
The online giant will upgrade its delivery network and expand its fleet and plans to barrel ahead with the development of Bray Film Studios in Berkshire.
To top it off, two new buildings are planned for its corporate HQ in east London.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said: "When Amazon invests, it’s not only in London and the South East – we’re bringing innovation and job creation to communities throughout England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, strengthening the UK’s economy and delivering better experiences for customers wherever they live."
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said the move was a "massive vote of confidence in the UK as the best place to do business" while chancellor Rachel Reeves dubbed it a "powerful endorsement of Britain’s economic strengths".
It comes as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has been forced to relocate his wedding celebrations after unhappy locals threatened a bizarre blockade of inflatable crocodiles to cause chaos on his big day.
The 61-year-old had planned to host a star-studded party at the 16th-century Scuola Grande della Misericordia as part of a multi-day wedding celebration with fiancée Lauren Sánchez.
However, amid growing backlash from locals who accused him of “shutting down Venice,” Bezos has reportedly now moved the event to a more secure venue.
Some protesters vowed to toss inflatables into the canals, blocking celebrity guests from arriving by gondola or water taxi.
“This is a big victory for us,” declared Tommaso Cacciari, a member of the No Space for Bezos protest group. “Who would have thought that we could change the plans of one of the richest men on the planet?”
The wedding will now take place at the Arsenale - a vast, fortress-like complex of shipyards and warehouses once used to build Venetian warships.
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