The era of E-commerce legacy of a huge niche market: pick-up service!

Online shopping is becoming more and more popular, and goods distribution service is more important. But courier companies will also encounter a lot of trouble, such as: door-to-door, the owner is not home. Kinek company plans a program, in various stores, gas stations set up a register cabinet, the goods sent to the address of the receiver near, the owner just on its website input distribution, take the goods situation, by the website automatically send information to remind recipients to take. In doing so, there are many people who shop and can increase consumption. However, both pros and cons ...

Parcel delivery is often blocked: The dog bites people, the door of thieves, the doorbell but no one responded, or many other obstacles, causing the goods can not reach the intended destination. Even demographics are involved: younger consumers are less willing to stay at home and wait for goods to come in than older people. As a result, it is the enterprise that suffers the loss. According to the British Association of Interactive Media Retail Group (IMRG), 2/5 of online shoppers said that if a site's goods distribution service is bad, they will not buy products here.

A new method has emerged to ensure the rapid and safe delivery of goods. For this, customers and businesses should be very welcome. More and more parcels are being sent to local shops for people to pick them up instead of being sent to home addresses. This summer, America's online retail giant, Amazon, is expanding the number of local stores in some of America's largest cities, as well as London. The customer receives an email or text message and gets an access code. As soon as you enter the code, the locker opens. Other companies are even building larger lockers http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/32416.html "> Network systems, especially in the European area.

To avoid delivery to the door, some shoppers are willing to pay a certain fee. ByBox is a British company with 1,350 outlets in the country. Collect a parcel from any place for the customer, which costs about 2 pounds (3.15 dollars). Other storage Cabinets network systems are free. In the area where the courier can reach, if a parcel is sent to a place, The courier company will save a lot of money, so they are particularly happy to provide this service. DHL has a lot of free lockers, 10 Germans, 9 people live near their outlets, or work, not more than 10 minutes to get the package. The French and Turkish post offices also offer free lockers.

There are other advantages to the storage cabinet service. This mode of distribution is more efficient and can be used to reduce pressure on trucks and other transportation tools. Andrew Starkey, of IMRG, said that at the height of the UK, vehicles were almost all laden with goods. Andrew Stark Second, with more and better infrastructure, businessmen are happy. Adding ideas should make online transactions easier. A Estonian company, for example, Cleveron a credit card reader on a storage cabinet across the Nordic region. These "chunky openings" can charge the goods in the cupboard.

Low-technology distribution systems are also promising. In more and more shops and other companies, there are a lot of parcels behind the counter, waiting for people to pick them up. A distribution network system has contracted 1,050 local stores in the United States and Canada, and more than 20 more stores per week. Kinek, the company's boss Garesse Soudou (Gareth Sudul), said that businesses like this simple "Kinek dot" service. It does not require any special equipment. Stores only need to enter the distribution and pick-up status on a website, and then the site will automatically send messages, information, reminders to recipients.

In general, a package at the pick-up point will cost about 3 dollars, of which 1 is Kinek. And people who take parcels often buy something. Lured by this extra consumption, some stores are willing to deliver packages for free. Pay more than 1 dollars for more than one customer to visit.

But not everyone is involved. Disputes over insurance liability may hinder the development of pick-up services. In the United States, some online businesses do not open physical stores or hire employees to pay sales taxes in certain states. So they may be very cautious about placing lockers in these parts of the United States. Customers who have paid for door-to-door are unwilling to swing to a nearby store or gas station to pick up a parcel. But the online sales business is growing, door-to-door will certainly be more and more headaches, and this rapid pick-up service will certainly be more eye-catching.

Source: Economist