Shop ‘would be a winner’ in UK

Amazon’s cashier-free bricksand-mortar grocery store could be a better fit for Britain than the US, experts have said.

The online retail giant has announced that it will open a store in Seattle next year and use technology that automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to shelves, allowing customers with the Amazon Go app to walk out of the store without queuing or scanning their items.

Nicla Di Palma, an equity analyst at wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, said: “I would say that it is even more likely to work in the UK than in the US,” she said.