Amazon has reportedly set its sights on a site near Oxford Circus in central London for its first cashierless grocery store in the UK.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, the new Amazon Go store located in what is regarded as Europe’s busiest shopping district would not only be the UK flagship, but it would also be the first Amazon Go to open outside the US.
Industry sources speaking to the newspaper said the new store was being orchestrated by Amazon’s US team, and not out of the UK.
Amazon Go is a chain of grocery convenience stores where customers scan their smartphones at a turnstile to enter, and then cameras identify what they take from the shelves.
When shoppers are finished, Amazon bills their credit cards on file as they leave the store. Amazon Go first opened in Seattle in January and has since expanded with two extra stores in that city, as well three stores in Chicago and one in San Francisco.
