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    Home»Sections»E-commerce»Pick n Pay launches same-day online delivery service

    Pick n Pay launches same-day online delivery service

    E-commerce By Suren Naidoo8 April 2020
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    In the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, supermarket giant Pick n Pay is upping the ante in South Africa’s online retail game by launching a same-day grocery delivery service in partnership with alcohol delivery app Bottles.

    Via the service dubbed Grocery Essentials, the retailer is now able to deliver groceries to customers directly from selected stores across the country on the same day.

    With PnP being one of the businesses allowed to trade under the lockdown as an “essential service” grocer, this move is clearly aimed at leveraging off its position in the market.

    With the lockdown and the ban on alcohol sales, Bottles re-engineered their app from alcohol to groceries in record time

    The group was one of South Africa’s first major food retailers to also pursue online sales as part of an “omni-channel” retail strategy several years back, ahead of major competitors such as Shoprite and Massmart.

    “Bottles is an on-demand alcohol delivery app that works in partnership with Pick n Pay,” the retailer noted in a statement announcing the new venture. “With the lockdown and the ban on alcohol sales, they re-engineered their app from alcohol to groceries in record time.”

    It says the service will help Pick n Pay’s online shopping service deliver essential groceries, at store prices, to customers faster during the lockdown. Pick n Pay already offers online shopping through its website and app, and has significantly increased its number of delivery slots per week.

    70 stores

    It says the same-day service was piloted last week and has already expanded to more than 70 stores in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. More stores are expected to be added countrywide.

    “Grocery Essentials will offer customers an easy and more efficient way to stay safe and top up everyday basic essential items – from milk and bread to cooking oil and nappies,” said Jessica Knight, head of online at Pick n Pay.

    “Orders are picked from local Pick n Pay stores,” she adds. “We have integrated the Bottles app with in-store availability to help us deliver on customers’ orders in full wherever possible. Should the product become unavailable from the time of placing the order, the store will always try find a suitable replacement item.”

    Knight said Pick n Pay continues to review products offered on the app based on customer feedback. “We’ve already added over 600 new products since our pilot last week. We want to make this as convenient for customers as possible.”

    According to the Cape Town-based retailer, customers already have the choice of over 1 500 products via the service and can purchase up to 30 different products in one order (limits may apply per product).

    All deliveries will be contactless, and customers can track their delivery on the Bottles app. Delivery costs R45 and there is a service fee of R15.

    We will roll it out to more stores so that we can serve more customers, both in metropolitan areas and towns

    “The systems we have put in place will let us scale the service,” said Knight. “We will roll it out to more stores so that we can serve more customers, both in metropolitan areas and towns.”

    Meanwhile, hoping to gain online traction against Pick n Pay and Woolworths, Shoprite also launched a same-day delivery service late last year through its more upmarket Checkers chain. At the time it said the grocery delivery service, named Sixty60, would deliver groceries within an hour.

    The latest move by PnP is likely to be well-received by consumers in lockdown. However, South Africa’s retailers, including online giant Takealot, have a long way to go in the same-day delivery stakes when compared to online behemoths like Amazon in the US.

    Complaints

    Amid the lockdown, Woolworths has faced complaints about grocery deliveries taking several days due to unprecedented demand, which has seen its food sales spike some 27%. Massmart’s deliveries also sometimes take several days.

    The click-and-collect service offered by several retailers such as Pick n Pay, Clicks, Dis-Chem, Makro and Takealot is also becoming more popular as online and omni-channel retail grows in South Africa.

    • This article was originally published on Moneyweb and is used here with permission
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