Electric Dealer "Last kilometer": NET buys the three model which the self mention

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Nature is just a joke, the net to buy or go to the net to buy it, big deal without express change from mention. Recently, Amazon announced a cooperation agreement with nearly 5,000 UK street stores and newspaper dealers to provide consumers with convenient and efficient package staging services. As a result of these small pick-up points in a wide range of business hours and long, users can at any time near their own retail stores or newspaper kiosks to take goods, no longer like before to go a long way to the scarce from the point of picking goods, often also doors.

The service is temporarily limited to books, clothing and other small and medium goods, and Amazon says it will further extend its services to all of the UK. Earlier in the United States has similar moves, Amazon chose the United 711 convenience stores to provide users with their own services. In the future, Amazon also intends to launch a collect+ program, allowing users to use these convenient from the point of the online purchase of goods easy to return, EBay, women's shopping website Asos has launched similar services.

The "last kilometer" in the field of electrical business has always been a long-standing problem. Two very bright companies recently gave a good plan: a Miss NEVs adopted a reciprocal strategy, asking small businesses to help nearby residents receive parcels, in return for residents shopping in that shop. This will not only allow the logistics company to improve delivery efficiency, but also to solve the net buyers out of the goods when the receipt of the problem. In view of allowing the merchant to sign Express also has the reliability question, they want to pass the grading/the appraisal system to let the user to carry on the comment to the merchant, thus facilitates other users to judge each pick-up point the reliability.

Another bufferbox is more ambitious, what they want to do is an Amazon-like locker service, and as soon as you sign up on Bufferbox, you'll get a special address for a Bufferbox box near your company or home--you can charge a parcel with this address. Once the parcel is sent to you, Bufferbox will send you an email with a unique password for the parcel. Then you can go to your bufferbox and enter your locker code and get your package. Founder McCauley said: "Amazon currently has 30% of the E-commerce market share, and other scattered 70% will also need such services, we can provide." From this perspective, we will be like an open platform. ”

Compared with the traditional commercial advantages of the network can make the whole process more efficient and convenient, but the current delivery of this traditional delivery method is greatly reduced the experience of online shopping. The form of a self-mentioning may in the future replace today's express position to become a more efficient way to pick up goods. It is not that the express will completely die out, may be in the luxury or VIP services will continue to remain, but the mainstream status will give way to the self-mention form. For the dead Curtilage, one of the great benefits of online shopping is that you don't have to bargain with the owner. Unfortunately, after a single still have to take the goods from the courier of the living hand, if one day the technology of the progress of the network to complete automation of the entire link, no longer need to wait for the express phone or face Courier Express Curiosity, dead curtilage will be very happy.

Source: 36Kr