Britain’s 35,000 corner shops offer more than cheap booze. Evri, a delivery company, now drops 180m parcels a year into shops, or 22.5% of all its deliveries. Customers of online-only banks, such as Monzo, can deposit cash wherever there is a PayPoint, a British payments company that works with corner shops. About 4 million households are on pre-payment gas and electricity meters, meaning they have to schlep to a shop whenever it runs out.