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Speedy delivery service ready for shopping surge
A SUPER-SPEEDY courier service that promises to deliver goods to your door in as little as 90 minutes has launched in Leeds - with early plans to rule the inevitable Christmas surge in online shopping.
Shutl, already a multi-award-winner, allows shoppers to receive online purchases from high street names super-fast, or to choose a one-hour delivery window on the same day or any day.
Up to now it’s only been available within the M25, which circles London, but has now launched in four major cities - Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Tom Allason, founder and CEO of Shutl, said: “This next phase of Shutl’s expansion will enable us to serve around 25 per cent of online shoppers in the UK.
“Assuming everything goes to plan, we expect to launch across a further five cities in the coming weeks. Our goal is to have sufficient coverage by November to give high-street retailers a significant competitive edge over Amazon and the other pure-play e-tailers this Christmas.”
Shutl - promoted as an “online delivery revolution” - works by connecting local same-day couriers across the UK into a single web service.
It links with retailers’ own web shopping services, allowing them to fulfil online orders from local stores and enabling far quicker and more convenient delivery than is possible from a centralised warehouse.
Because the delivery distance is short, prices are comparable to standard one or two day delivery service.
Leading fashion brands like Karen Millen, Oasis, Coast and Warehouse will all be part of the new Leeds service.
Other major high street names are expected to follow suit.
Recent research by The Co-operative Electrical has shown that across the UK, online shoppers waste on average of five days a year waiting for online purchases to be delivered. 90 per cent of those surveyed rated not being given a defined delivery time-slot as their number one gripe.
Shutl, started by 30-year old veteran entrepreneur Tom Allason just over a year ago, already has a clutch of awards, including the BT Retail Week Technology Award for “Supply Chain Excellence” and the “Technology Breakthrough Business” award at the MediaGuardian Innovation Awards 2011. The company has also been shortlisted as a finalist at the forthcoming Oracle World Retail Awards in the “Retail Innovation” category,
The firm currently holds the record for the world’s fastest online shopping delivery; a customer taking receipt of their goods within 18 minutes of checking out online.
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