  We present arguments which suggest that the bulk higher-spin gravity duals of
weakly-coupled conformal field theories obey some refined notion of locality.
In particular, we discuss the Mellin amplitude programme in this context. We
focus on the $O(N)$ vector model and minimal higher-spin gravity as a
paradigmatic example of such holographic dual pairs. We restrict ourselves to
three- and four-point functions of scalar primary operators, but the
qualitative conclusions are expected to hold for the generic case.
