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Subject: UKNM: Re: Re: Re: Waitrose man in The Guardian
From: Tim Ireland
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:09:38 GMT

"Andy" <andyatshonky [dot] net> said:
<snip>
> Anyway, Jon Browett (Tesco.Com CEO) was asked, at a seminar last week if
> they (tesco.com) planned to do a one hour delivery service. Sadly he
didn't
> answer it but he did talk about tesco's strategy and that I think gave the
> reason why Urbanfetch failed. Rather than delivering from a central
> warehouse they should have done it the tesco way, from local stores.

Unlike the Sainsburys way (ahem). I seem to recall arguing the point over
this with someone at the last Chinwag do. The unnamed party was convinced
that tesco should invest in a series of central warehouses.

<grin>

> Sadly
> urbanfetch didn't have any. Tesco do so I think they should offer a 1 hour
> service and sell the kind of FMCG that Urbanfetch were selling and that
made
> them so successful, even if they couldn't sustain it. I just wish Tesco
> thought it too.

<deep intake of breath>

Tim Ireland
Director of Marketing
www.designercity.com


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