The service is now up in the UK:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...u-k-sales.html
Quote:
Bookshop, which launched in the U.S. in January, partners with independent bookstore and affiliates, and markets itself as a solution for bookstores that don't have robust online operations to sell books to customers who might otherwise go to competitor's websites. Hunter says the Booksellers Association in the U.K. got in touch with him shortly after the U.S. launch to discuss the possibility of expansion. Unlike in the U.S., where the American Booksellers Association has offered stores a variety of options to sell books online, including IndieBound, the U.K.'s BA has no such program. The U.K. site was planned, organized and launched in a three-month window. "It was daunting," admitted Hunter, "but we are happy that we stretched ourselves and got it done."
As of Tuesday, 150 bookstores across the U.K. had signed up to be Bookshop affiliates. Distribution is through Gardners and shipping times are two to three days from order to delivery. "Discounts for books are a bit worse in the U.K., but when you include shipping, the price to buy a book from the site is approximately the same as what you would pay in a store," said Hunter.
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Bold mine.
So, same price; two to three day delay.
No "community engagement" socializing or "serendipitous stroll through the aisles", though.
More at the source.