Amazon jobs: Online giant still recruiting in Rugeley as 'Cyber Monday' approaches

In September the online-retail giant announced 4,500 new temporary posts would be opened up to cope with demand this Christmas.

The firm said most roles have been filled, but there are still jobs available. Last year Amazon gave 2,000 workers permanent employment after Christmas.

This Monday's 'Cyber Monday' will be the culmination to what has become the annual festival of plummeting prices and sales silliness.

Strictly for online-based retailers, it is likely to be a more relaxed affair for shoppers who will be constantly hitting their tablet's refresh button as opposed to fighting their way through store queues.

But spare a thought for staff at Amazon's warehouse in Rugeley who are still set to be dashing about behind the relatively calm facade of the website.

Preparations are well under way for a manic Monday while bosses calculate whether yesterday was another record-breaker – Black Friday 2015 was Amazon's busiest ever day with more than 7.4million items ordered.

Rugeley is one of a dozen similar Amazon 'fulfilment' centres throughout the UK.

The warehouses store thousands of products where they are picked, packed, and distributed out. The service has been a rapidly growing part of Amazon's business with the number of units dispatched through fulfilment on last year's Black Friday up by 70 per cent on the 2014 event.

And Monday is likely to be another marathon 24-hours for workers.

Last year Amazon kicked things off at the stroke of midnight and continued to introduce new deals every 10 minutes which kept customers clicking for the next tempting reductions all day. It is expected Monday's extravaganza will be more of the same although time will tell if savvy shoppers have managed to resist a whole week's worth of reductions after the firm decided to start their Black Friday deals a fortnight ago. Shoppers will be expecting thousands of 'lightning deals' only available in short supply and for a short time, while expensive electrical goods from Playstation 4s to Amazon's own product range set to be top of the day's best sellers with average discounts of 40 per cent expected on a lot of goods. The firm's own line of 'Echo' and 'Dot' speakers have already proved popular and are expected to shift in vast amounts again.

Doug Gurr, UK country manager, Amazon, said: "We've had a very positive customer response to the thousands of deals during our extended 12 day Black Friday Sale and customers have been snapping up lots of our great deals on offer"

Cyber Monday started in America in 2005 and has become popular in the UK in the last four years.

Last year saw shoppers in the UK splurge a whopping £968m on Cyber Monday.