Carrefour and La Poste team up to extend home delivery services
French retail group Carrefour and La Poste are teaming up to accelerate the development of nationwide home delivery services for food and non-food shopping.
In a statement issued today (23 January), Carrefour and La Poste said the plan was for the Carrefour Livraison Express service to reach 15 French cities by the end of 2018.
The companies added: “After successful roll-out in Paris and its immediate surroundings, followed by Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Montpellier, the Carrefour and La Poste groups will deploy the Carrefour Livraison Express service in 10 new cities in 2018: Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Lille, Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Reims, Rennes and Strasbourg.
“This one-hour delivery service has been operated, since its creation in 2016, by Stuart, a subsidiary of the La Poste group specialized in urgent urban deliveries.”
Meanwhile, following on from their cooperation for Carrefour Livraison Express, Carrefour and La Poste have also decided to launch this year a new delivery service from Drive Carrefour (hypermarkets and supermarkets).
This service will be tested in 2018 in two pilot cities – and again delivery will also be operated by Stuart (the on demand delivery startup which is now wholly owned by La Poste/Geopost).
The companies added: “The density of the La Poste network and of Carrefour stores is an opportunity to deploy home delivery services nationwide, with La Poste providing Carrefour with expertise in last-mile management to simplify the lives of customers of the food retail group and offer them a broader range of services.”
