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ASDA launched its first stand-alone collection point for online orders in the Green Park office park in Reading, United Kingdom in mid-December 2012. The collection point allows customers to place orders online and pick them up from the collection point in 4 hour time slots. Customers can order as late as midnight and pick up [...]
After launching the first drive concept in 2000, French hypermarket and supermarket chain, Auchan, announced earlier this week that they will launch a new drive concept store incorporating fresh produce. The new brand, under the code name “Multifrais,” will open this March in the Paris metro area. Auchan Attempts to Combine “Drive” and “Fresh” Auchan [...]
Keith Anderson’s one-hour year-end forum preview webinar outlines how the Year-End Forum Program will leave registrants with: (1) an understanding of the new business models and growth platforms worth watching, (2) great ideas from global innovators to share with your teams, (3) commercial innovation: how retailers’ and brands’ joint business plans should evolve, (4) an [...]
The concept of the drive-thru in retail has fully blossomed in Europe, but the service is still gaining traction and awareness among US consumers. This year Stop & Shop unveiled a model that has a lot of similarities to the successful drive-through services being offered by retailers like E. Leclerc, Intermarche, and Auchan in France. [...]
Meijer is a US company faced with the same challenge that led to the development of the European Drive-through format. First, food and perishables are extremely difficult to deliver cost-effectively and second, some shoppers want the ease and convenience of shopping online paired with the immediacy of picking up the order in as short a [...]
Auchan China has recently launched their first drive format prototype store in Suzhou, China. The official website is now open to pre-registration for a text message notification about the grand opening and a RMB25 digital coupon. First opened in France, Auchan was the pioneer in developing the stand-alone pickup format in the past decade. RNG [...]
Carrefour and other big box retailers’ difficulties are well documented. RetailNet Group Vice President Tim O’Connor covers how the rapid rollout and acceptance of the drive concept put a major pothole in Carrefour’s plans for hypermarket recovery, as well as differences in various drive models and success factors. RetailNet Group subscribers can click HERE to [...]
While the REWE Group first tested their version of the Drive concept in Cologne, Germany in 2009, a successful trial resulted in the roll out of the service in April 2011. The German retailer has implemented the online order, pick up option into 3 of its existing stores in the Rhine-Main area in April 2011. [...]
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