STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday opened up its Swedish website, bringing customers more than 150 million products across 30 categories, With this, they would be marking its first entry in the Nordics.
Swedish customers could do shopping on Amazon through its websites in other European countries such as Germany. Getting in their purchases shipped in often meant paying high delivery charges.
Alex Ootes, vice president for EU Expansion at Amazon, said the new website, amazon.se, will also bring tens of thousands of products from Swedish businesses.
The company said that orders over 229 crowns and shipping from Amazon’s distribution center would be delivered free of charge.
Postal company Postnord and shoppers would be making deliveries, and an add-on will be the option of priority shipping, with packages delivered within two days.
This month, Amazon started a 91-megawatt power project in Sweden to support Amazon Web Services data centres and expanding its retail business. It is expected to deliver 280,000-megawatt hours of clean energy a year for the Swedish grid.