Ed Sheridan, LDRS
The Mall in Upper Street
- Credit: Andre Langlois
The opening of a new Amazon Fresh store in Upper Street has hit a bump in the road, after councillors accused the company of seeking a licence to sell alcohol “in a rather underhanded manner.”
Amazon, which is launching a number of such stores across the country operating with till-less Just Walk Out Technology in which visitors pay for their goods through an app, had initially applied for the alcohol licence through a company named British Overseas Bank Nominees Ltd M & G Property.
This proved a problem for councillors, with Cllr Martin Klute initially writing in to criticise the application as “curiously opaque,” and the Town Hall’s licensing committee subsequently deferring the application. It was deferred on the basis that the police and environmental health would not have had full sight of the type of store the company was intending to open ahead of the deadline for submitting any concerns they