UKNM: Re: Post Offices and online groceries

[Lois Grayson]

Funnily enough my Mum asked me last Feb why she and the rest of her village

couldn't log onto Tesco.com at an internet point in her Post Office to order

with one weekly pre-set delivery day and time - had to tell her that

Tesco.com didn't deliver to the darkest depths of Cornwall and attempts to

talk to said company about said idea didn't get far. But then attempts to

talk to Barclays Bank about a re-motivation programme for their remaining

branch staff didn't get far this year either. Moral - Big business still

doesn't give a s**t about customers or staff unless immediate ����s are very

apparent.


My Mum ; eBusiness entrepreneur or just someone trying to make the net work

on a common sense basis?

So disappointing to explain that to get this organised you'd have to find

someone in the PO with a brain and a vision so it's a no-hoper before you

start


Lois

----- Original Message -----

From: Silas Denyer <

silas [dot] denyerturns [dot] net

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To: <

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:42 PM

Subject: Re: UKNM: Waitrose man in The Guardian



> ----- Original Message -----

>

From: <Steven_Buckleyexe [dot] com>

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To: <uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 9:04 PM

> Subject: RE: UKNM: Waitrose man in The Guardian

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>

> > This is exactly what is meant by lifestyle collection points - home

> delivery

> > is

> > becoming less important and will soon become a premium delivery service.

> > The

> > great thing about lifestyle collection points is the pure convenience -

> > already

> > in the US companies are delivering to offices and set up special

discount

> > rates

> > for large firms whose staff wish to use the service - GroceryWorks for

> > instance

> > delivers fresh and frozen food to our Dallas office each day.

Lifestyle

> > collection points could include :

> >

> > The office

> > The car park at the office

> > The boot of your car - leave the keys with reception

> >

> > [snip]

> >

> > Steven Buckley

> > EMEA Marketing Manager - EXE Technologies

>

> I believe that, in a sort of "in between" version of this model (i.e. no

> delivery to home, but an aggregation point), this has been going on for

some

> time in the Japanese mail-order industry: corner shops & local stores have

> been revitalised by their new roles as collection points for goods ordered

> elsewhere. This model has simply been adopted by the online world.

>

> Perhaps in the UK our President's (sorry Prime Minister's) attempts to

> position sub post offices as local "one stop shops" for a range of

services

> could be extended to include this type of activity, thus leveraging the

"new

> economy" to support local communities? Perhaps we should all fax our MPs

(as

> per another thread) to urge support for Government-subsidised "lifestyle

> collection points" to aid our new economy?

>

> Silas Denyer

> Director, Turns Ltd

>

e. silas [dot] denyerturns [dot] net

> t. 07956 661902



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