Retail-Week reports that Amazon UK will be expanding into Gourmet Foods and Digital Downloads in 2008. Manging Director Brian McBride also shared that we may see a specialty shoe site in the UK similar to Endless.com and another Fulfillment By Amazon warehouse in Swansea, UK in April. Great to see that team build out the site, but there are a few other items on my 2008 Amazon UK wishlist:

1. Launch Amazon Webstore to give UK-based online retailers more eCommerce options
2. Redesign the site to match the US look + fee and offer better navigation options
3. Launch Amazon Product Ads (I am pretty sure it’s US-only at this time)
4. Offer ClickRiver contextual ads
5. Adopt Amazon Vine in the UK to help merchants introduce and promote new products

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