Pick n Pay has launched a new pick-up point for Takealot customers at its Table Bay Mall store in Cape Town.<\/p>\n
The retailer said that this is part of a pilot to offer customers the convenience of picking up their non-food online orders while shopping for groceries.<\/p>\n
Its Takealot pick-up point launched a week before Christmas and reached collection capacity within two days, which Pick n Pay said indicates strong potential for this concept.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe aim to run the pilot for three months to gauge the value it provides customers, but the results after two weeks are already very promising,\u201d said Ansgar Pabst, Pick n Pay\u2019s omnichannel general merchandise head.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the substantial customer interest, Pick n Pay aims to increase the number of in-store collections per day due and will add more stores to the pilot in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
It said Takealot customers could pick up most of their orders, except very large appliances.<\/p>\n
The service is operational during regular store hours, and customers can reserve a collection day.<\/p>\n
A pick-up point is convenient for customers who can\u2019t wait for a delivery, or for those living in areas that don\u2019t qualify for home delivery.<\/p>\n
The retailers said the venture could improve online inclusivity for millions of customers thanks to Pick n Pay\u2019s extensive 2,000-store network.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur stores have evolved from just a place to shop your groceries,\u201d Pabst stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are a place for time-strapped customers to pay their bills, RICA their SIM card or do their banking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pick n Pay entered into a commercial services agreement with the Takealot Group last year to scale its on-demand delivery with Mr D.<\/p>\n
In addition to its newly launched Pick n Pay Home online store, the retail giant offers more than 500 general merchandise products on Takealot.<\/p>\n
Its new on-demand grocery and liquor shopping service \u2014 PnP Groceries delivered by Mr D \u2014 officially launched in October 2022 and has been rolled out to over 300 stores.<\/p>\n
Pick n Pay has launched in-store Takealot pick-up counters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":475747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[25115,82985,35,5380,995,67765],"class_list":["post-475745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-ansgar-pabst","tag-frederik-zietsman","tag-headline","tag-pick-n-pay","tag-takealot","tag-takealot-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}