Swiss Post testing online marketplace with same-day delivery
Swiss Post is testing an online marketplace with same-day delivery in the Berne area.
In a statement posted on its website on 29 March, Swiss Post said “numerous stores in Berne are now offering their items on a shared shopping platform” ( www.kaloka.ch) and added that “thanks to support from BERNcity, same-day delivery will be free of charge during the first two weeks”.
Shoppers who order before 1 p.m. on working days will receive their shopping by 4 p.m. Orders submitted by 5 p.m. will be delivered by 8 p.m.
The start-up notime’s Cargovelo courier service provides the same-day delivery capability.
Swiss Post said it was offering the new service “both to test a new same-day delivery format in the Berne area, and to make its services available along the e-commerce value chain”.
Kaloka will run as a pilot project until 15 September. Swiss Post said that it will then be “evaluated to see if and how the project should be continued”.
