Coles has added another twist to its experiments with online delivery, teaming up with the bicycle-based service Deliveroo to offer 30-minute home deliveries on groceries. Deliveroo, which mostly delivers food from restaurants, has been offering “food packs” such as a selection of barbecue items or entertainment snacks for delivery to customers in Melbourne’s inner-east since early this year. The partnership upped the ante last month and is now offering a range of basic groceries for home delivery, including milk, bread, cheese, spreads and fruit and vegetables, plus a range of “meal packs” that include ingredients to make dishes such as pork noodle soup and risotto. Coles has started promoting the offer to customers, advertising home delivery within 30 minute on those products through Deliveroo’s network, which is made up of contractors mostly using bicycles or scooters. Deliveroo is the second “share economy” service Coles has teamed up with as it tries to improve its online and home delivery offering ahead of digital retail giant Amazon’s arrival in Australia some time next year. The supermarket last month started a short trial with Silicon Valley giant Uber, in which the “ride-sharing” company’s network of drivers completed same-day deliveries for items that were left out or needed to be replaced from orders Coles’ own trucks delivered. The Uber trial was run out of Coles’ online-only “dark store” in Richmond South.
Source: www.smh.com
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