John Lewis taking part in car boot delivery trial
Retailer John Lewis is working with Jaguar Land Rover’s innovation arm InMotion to trial a system for delivering goods to customers’ car boots. The system, developed by the InMotion-supported start-up toBoot, was first trialed in 2016 with a small-scale study with Jaguar Land Rover staff. Now, the system will be extended later this year to include tests with Jaguar Land Rover customers.
As with other in-car delivery concepts, a smart box is installed in the boot of the customer’s car. The courier receives a notification of the car’s GPS location and registration number, as well as a code that provides once-only access to the boot and box.
As previously reported by Post&Parcel, a number of similar in-car delivery concepts have been trialed by Volvo, Daimler and others – but this is believed to the first trial in the UK.
John Lewis’ innovation manager John Vary said: “Having deliveries made to your car boot has the potential to be a major breakthrough.”
