Ocado Group inks online deal with Spanish retailer Alcampo

Ocado Solutions has teamed with Auchan Retail owned Spanish grocer Alcampo to develop the latter’s online business using the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP).

The pair will initially build a customer fulfilment centre (CFC) to serve the Madrid region from 2024, with additional CFCs to be announced at future dates.

Alcampo will also leverage Ocado’s In-Store Fulfilment (ISF) software across its hypermarkets nationwide to enable more efficient picking from stores.

BIG NEWS 🇪🇸 Welcome @Alcampo to the Leaders Club of our global partners! We can’t wait to bring world-beating grocery online experiences to their customers and help @AuchanNews become a market leader online in Spain! 1st CFC serving Madrid in 2024! Vamos! https://t.co/vi53aqkD9N
— Luke Jensen (@LukeJensenOcado) July 6, 2021

Alcampo will pay Ocado certain fees upfront and during the development phase, then ongoing fees linked to both sales achieved and installed capacity within the CFC and service criteria.

Ocado and Auchan Retail will also explore the potential to extend this partnership into other geographies.

Edgard Bonte, President at Auchan Retail, says: "Food e-commerce and the acceleration towards an omnichannel offer are a priority for all our brands.”

“This partnership illustrates our desire to be the leader in phygital food retail in this country in the near future. I am confident in our ability to make it happen, with the help of Ocado’s technology.”

Tim Steiner, CEO at Ocado Group, comments: “The appetite for our unique end-to-end platform remains strong as retailers look to take advantage of the channel shift which is now redrawing the landscape of the global grocery market.”