Showing posts with label home delivery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home delivery. Show all posts
Tuesday 3 November 2015

Starship-robot home delivery – a new threat for the mults?

›
      ‘Step aside, old guy’                                                                    pic: Starship Technologies Former Skype ...
Monday 13 July 2015

Tesco £40 minimum delivery spend, an each-way bet on basket-size?

›
Their new £4 surcharge on orders below £40, in line with Asda and Sainsbury’s, means that Tesco are crossing fingers that a sufficient numb...
Wednesday 23 April 2014

Ocado - the real 'backstory' to a home delivery service

›
According to Graeme Burton of Computing , in discarding the idea of off-the-shelf software from the start, the development of bespoke softw...
Tuesday 25 September 2012

Tesco to build national network of online-only 'dark stores'

›
They are not open to the public but used to assist nearby shops unable to keep up with internet orders. Tesco already has four dark store...
Monday 24 September 2012

Home Delivery charges - a one-way subsidy?

›
Given that picking, bagging and making a home delivery costs supermarkets up to £20, the £5 charge actually represents a subsidy for the se...
Tuesday 14 August 2012

An Amazonian window?

›
Yesterday’s news that Ocado is in risk of breaching its bank covenants, coupled with its fall in share price, could represent a takeover o...
Tuesday 7 August 2012

Tesco trials UK’s first virtual stores

›
                                                                                      pic: The Financial Times Tesco on Monday launched ...
Tuesday 10 January 2012

A home delivery service using local independent shops?

›
If you don't have time to visit the butcher, the baker and the fishmonger, someone else can do it for you Growing fast, Hubbub was laun...
Friday 6 January 2012

A final pre-austerity treat for those not tired of Christmas fare?

›
For those amongst our readers still awaiting delivery of their Fortnum & Masons £5,000 Christmas hampers we can reveal that the unforgi...