Delipop e-grocery Click and Collect network set for Paris launch
A new Click and Collect network, that allows people to pick up online food orders, is set to be launched in France.
The Arctan robotics-based offering enables automated order fulfilment at multi-brand collection points.
Łukasz Nowiński, CEO and Founder, Retail Robotics, and Hervé Street, President at Star Service Group, have created a joint venture under the Delipop brand.
“I look forward to the first multi brand network of automatic pickup points for e-grocery, where reality surpasses what not long ago felt like fiction,” says Stephane Legatelois, CEO at Delipop France and former Director of Supply Chain E-commerce at Carrefour.
“It creates new milestones and standards that move the entire ecosystem forward with automation and robotics - groundbreaking innovation in technology and e-grocery logistics.”
The initiative will serve customers of various grocery retailers in France, starting operations this year in Paris.
Joint venture investment clocks in at Euro 20 million, covering 30 locations during the first phase of the project. The aim is to create 12 Delipop points in 2021 and up to 1,000 by the end of 2025.
One location is able to process up to 5,000 orders per month.
A robotics powered network will also be introduced to the UK, with a first demo location going live in London this year.
“According to official data, the online grocery market in the UK increased by over 80% in 2020 and reached more than £20 billion,” says Michal Mierzejewski, VP Global Sales & Business Development at Retail Robotics.
“Online business accounts for 20% of overall grocery sales at the largest British retailers. This is not a market we could miss in our global strategy.”
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