Inside the Amazon warehouse replacing the high street

With sterile strip lighting, an endless whir of machines, and 15 miles of conveyor belts, the Amazon warehouse in Essex doesn't feel like a place an average Briton would want to do their shopping. But the giant'Fulfilment Centre' in Tilbury, which is the size of 28 football pitches, is one of the distribution hubs rapidly replacing High Street shops around the UK. A total of 1,772 stores disappeared from the UK's busiest town centres last year, the equivalent of almost five closing every day. Retailers blame the rise of web giants like Amazon, with around 20% of all money forked out by shoppers now spent online. This is Amazon'Fulfillment Centre' in Tilbury, Essex, which high street retailers have blamed for falling trade The giant centre has an army of 1,000 un-sleeping specially developed robots to move the millions of items inside the facility.