Amazon plans to shut three UK warehouses; 1.2K likely to lose jobs

Amazon.com plans to shut down three of its UK warehouses this year in an operation that will impact about 1,200 employees.

Hemel Hempstead, Donca-ster and Gourock will shut this year, making way for two new fulfillment centers, Amazon said on Tuesday.

The two new sites will be in Peddimore in the West Midlands, and Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, and are set to open in the next three years, a spokesman said.