The retail technology week in numbers
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3,500…Sainsbury’s has announced a trial involving its one-hour bicycle delivery service Chop Chop and a closed store in central London.
Its Blackfriars Local outlet is stocking 400 essential grocery and household products, including milk and toilet roll. Customers will be able to order up to 20 items for same-day delivery. Sainsbury’s expects to be able to serve up to 3,500 customers a week from the one store and is working with its delivery partner to recruit more riders.
2,000…COVID-19 is prompting a shift in UK households’ digital activity, according to a EY survey involving 2,000 people.
Many Brits are trying online services for the first time – video calling shows the largest uptick (18%), ahead of online shopping (9%) and watching catch-up TV (9%).
200,000…Taobao Live, Alibaba Group’s livestreaming channel, has announced plans to help more than 200,000 bricks and mortar stores and 100 marketplaces make use of the platform this year.
780,000…Tesco has urged shoppers to ‘think before they click’ and shop in-store whenever possible.
The retailer has expanded its home delivery and Click and Collect capacity to around 780,000 delivery slots, up from 660,000 two weeks ago, with plans to increase this by another 100,000 in the coming weeks. To help it pick more orders, stores with an online grocery operation will open their doors a little later – from 8am.
2,000…Post-Covid-19, convenience, cost and increasingly environmental considerations will be the competitive differentiators around online delivery, according to research by RetailEXPO involving 2,000 Brits.
80…WHSmith has announced that 80 of its hospital stores across the UK will be increasing their grocery ranges, in collaboration with Sainsbury’s, to support NHS staff on the coronavirus frontline.
$200 million…Coinbase Commerce, a platform that supports cryptocurrency payments for online merchants, has racked up $200 million in transactions.
100,000…Ocado has bought 100,000 Covid-19 test kits for its grocery packers and delivery drivers.
2,000…More than 2,000 grocers across the US are ditching delivery fees for customers aged 60 and older on orders fulfilled by DoorDash during the coronavirus outbreak.
