On-demand delivery app Zapp, which allows customers to order on-demand convenience items from its local Zappstores, has launched a premium offer called Zapp Boutique. The new offer will allow customers to order from a range of premium products, including food, beauty products and technology. It will include brands such as (more…)
Ecommerce fulfilment provider PFS has partnered with technology provider Vimaan to launch autonomous flying warehouse drones that offer automated inventory tracking for its clients. Initially, PFS is integrating Vimaan’s StorTRACK AIR, the first-of-its-kind self-flying warehouse drones to automate inventory tracking activities within one of PFS’s Memphis-based fulfilment operations that stores and picks, (more…)
Forty traders at Billingsgate Market in London, are taking part in a sustainable deliveries pilot which will end later this month and which has already seen an estimated 37% reduction in CO2 emissions and a reduction of 949 vehicle journeys. The pilot is a partnership between the City of London Corporation, DHL (more…)
Boots has become the first community pharmacy in the UK to transport prescription-only medicines by uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones. The company is working on a trial with medical drone start-up Apian and completed a test flight transporting prescription-only medicines by drone from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight earlier this month. The flight departed from the British Army’s Baker Barracks on Thorney Island near (more…)
Amazon has raised the price of its UK Prime membership by £1 a month or £16 a year. Monthly subscriptions will now cost £8.99 a month and annaul subscriptions will rise from £79 to £95. The price rises are the first in the UK since 2014 and have been blamed (more…)
Delivery firm Evri has partnered with Vinted, for which it has been a delivery partner since 2018, to launch a joint social media influencer campaign. It will highlight the benefits of using Vinted and the convenience of sending parcels via Evri’s ParcelShops, with several well-known content creators across TikTok and (more…)
Tesco has launched a new range of Delivery Saver subscriptions, including a click and collect membership plan. The company’s 12-month plans include an Anytime Delivery package or an Off Peak Delivery package, the latter of which is around half the price of the Anytime Delivery package. Customers can also sign (more…)
Marks and Spencer Group has announced £145 million deal to buy Gist, its principal logistics provider for M&S Food. The move comes as part of plans to modernise its food supply chain network. And a belief that it can reduce the cost to serve, update legacy systems and improve automation (more…)
InPost has now deployed 4,000 parcel locker units across the UK, doubling the number since the same time last year. The company has also expanded the number of partners it is working with during the year with new partnerships including eBay and Vinted, allowing another option for marketplace sellers. In (more…)
Ocado now has 18 CFC sites (including 2 micros) open of its 58 committed so far with six of those having opened in the first half of 2022. The six new sites include the first CFC for ICA in Sweden, a second site in Canada for Sobeys, and 4 further (more…)
Frasers Group has invested more than £200 million in automation at its Shirebrook distribution centre, extending the capacity of what was already the biggest auto-store in Europe, the company claims. In its full year trading update for the 52 weeks to 24 April this week, the company said that its (more…)
Aldi has launched a recruitment drive that will include the creation of 1,000 logistics roles in its distribution centres across the UK in the next 12 months. The company will offer new full-time and part-time positions as it expands its distribution, transport and maintenance teams at its 11 regional distribution (more…)
Royal Mail says it has seen a fall in total parcel volume and revenues for the brand of 15% in its first quarter to June 2022, compared to the previous year. When compared to pre-pandemic levels total parcel volume grew by 1% and revenue by 15.6%. Domestic parcel volumes were (more…)
Ecommerce marketplace Wish has signed a partnership that will allow customers to collect their orders from Collect+ retailers. The service will initially be rolled out to select stores across the UK and will more than double the number of available pickup locations for Wish customers in the UK. Michael Gnaedinger, (more…)
Hotel Chocolat has signed a new ten year lease on a second UK distribution centre. The new DC is in Northampton and will be operational in time for Christmas 2023, the company said this week. The 429,107 sq ft facility is part of the Panattoni logistics park in Northampton. Hotel (more…)
Digital homewares brand Made has warned that profitability in 2022 will be adversely impacted by around £20 million of non-recurring costs, associated with stock and distribution. It said the costs focus on the additional promotional and clearance activity needed to clear excess inventory, as well as additional costs in the (more…)
DPD is partnering with smart locker specialist Quaident to allow its customers to collect goods from parcel lockers for the first time. Quadient will initially install 500 contactless, secure locker stations with plans for 5,000 ultimately. 200 of the first lockers will be in 24/7 outdoor facilities such as housing (more…)
In The Style Group, which reported its full-year results this week, says a move to a new warehouse by the end of September this year will improve fulfilment efficiency for the brand. The company, which recently helped to raise more than £1.25 million for Dame Deborah James’ Bowelbabe fund for (more…)
Interview with Duncan Mitchell CEO and Co-Founder of Ryde What does your company do and what is your USP? Ryde equips businesses with the technology, people, and vehicles they need to establish an integrated logistics solution – we focus on same day delivery with the technology to make it cheaper (more…)
Co-op and Starship Technologies have expanded their autonomous robot delivery service to Wellingborough, Higham Ferrers and Rushden in Northamptonshire. It means up to 45,000 residents across 33,000 households can now order from four Co-op stores in the selected towns. The local stores act as micro-distribution hubs in the community, with (more…)
