Amazon warehouse closures put 1,200 jobs at risk

Online retail elephantine Amazon has said it plans to unopen 3 warehouses successful the UK, putting 1,200 jobs astatine risk.

However, the institution besides said it planned to unfastened 2 caller centres creating 2,500 jobs implicit the adjacent 3 years.

The 3 warehouses being closed are successful Hemel Hempstead, Doncaster and Gourock, successful the westbound of Scotland.

The steadfast said unit astatine the sites being closed would beryllium offered the accidental to determination to different Amazon locations.

The 2 caller warehouses being planned are successful Peddimore, West Midlands, and Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.

Last week, Amazon said it planned to chopped much than 18,000 jobs globally, the largest fig successful the firm's history, successful an effort to trim costs.

Announcing the latest changes, an Amazon spokesperson said: "We're ever evaluating our web to marque definite it fits our concern needs and to amended the acquisition for our employees and customers."