Amazon opens second till-free supermarket in UK
The US giant s store allows customers to walk out with items without having to go to a checkout to pay
16 March 2021 • 10:43am
Amazon now has two grocery stores in the UK – in Ealing in west London (pictured) and Wembley in north west London
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Amazon has today opened its second till-free grocery store in the UK just weeks after it launched its first site outside of the US in Ealing.
The second Amazon Fresh shop, which has opened in Wembley in north west London, will sell both own-label “By Amazon” products such as milk, butter and eggs, as well as established brands.
Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, businessman who became Mrs Thatcher’s chief of staff at No 10 – obituary
He was a key member of the No 10 team in the early 1980s and later served as chairman of Next and his family business Great Universal Stores
Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale
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Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, who has died aged 85, was, as David Wolfson, Mrs Thatcher’s first chief of staff when she was Prime Minister, and then became chairman of Great Universal Stores (GUS), the retail giant founded before the war as a mail order clothing company by his uncle Isaac Wolfson.
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