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Deliveroo launches first physical store on London’s New Oxford Street

Linda Stewart — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:53:25 +0000

Food delivery giant Deliveroo has launched its first bricks-and-mortar grocery store in the UK, in partnership with Morrisons, on New Oxford Street in London.

Customers at the new Deliveroo HOP store will be able to walk in to order and shop for groceries, including Morrisons’ ‘Ready to Eat’ and ‘The Best’ ranges.

The move comes as new research from Deliveroo revealed the need for convenience and availability, with around one in three dinner plans decided on the day and ingredients being bought on the way home.

The grocery store offers customers a new way to shop, enabling them to shop in-store by ordering through digital kiosks, ordering via the Deliveroo app for collection at the store, and for delivery within minutes to local residents, offices and other addresses via Deliveroo’s network of riders.

Open from 8am to 11pm, the store will offer more than 1,750 grocery items, from Morrisons ranges to store cupboard staples, snacks and dinner ingredients, with Deliveroo’s dedicated site team picking and packing the orders, ready for collection or delivery in minutes.

Eric French, chief operating officer at Deliveroo, said: “We’re opening our doors and welcoming commuters, local residents, visitors and day-trippers into our first Deliveroo high-street grocery store in the UK.

“Our New Oxford Street store promises a new way to shop for Deliveroo customers, giving them even greater flexibility and choice and should help boost the local area with nearly two thirds of shoppers saying they will visit other nearby shops as they come to shop with Deliveroo.”

Ahead of the launch of the grocery store, Deliveroo commissioned new research to understand how people shop, finding that 40% of shoppers reported buying groceries once every two to three days, bucking the age-old ‘weekly shop’ trends, while younger people champion convenience, with almost half (42%) of 18-34 year olds ranking it as the number one determining factor when purchasing groceries, while 38% of those surveyed rank price as most important.

Almost a quarter (24%) of Londoners now use rapid grocery services once a week to get their groceries, and nearly two thirds of those asked (61%) said they were likely to also visit other nearby shops while shopping for groceries.

Hannah Horsfall, head of wholesale at Morrisons, said: “The launch of Deliveroo Hop’s first bricks-and-mortar store represents another key moment in our partnership.

“The store will not only offer customers a wide choice of groceries from Morrisons but also a variety of ways to shop for them.”

Deliveroo is also expanding its partnership with Too Good To Go to the new grocery store, helping to reduce food waste by offering customers the chance to buy £15 worth of food nearing its sell-by date for the cost of £5.

The ‘Magic Bag’ can be ordered via the Too Good To Go app and will include a range of non-frozen food including own-brand products, groceries or meat and fish nearing their sell-by-date from ‘Deliveroo HOP’ grocery partners.

Deliveroo HOP first launched in September 2021 and now operates across 16 sites in the UK, France, Italy, Hong Kong and the UAE.

Its list of grocery partners continues to grow, with new and expanded partnerships with Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Co-op, ASDA and Spar, alongside Auchan in France, Esselunga in Italy, and ParknShop in Hong Kong.

Deliveroo has almost 7,000 grocery sites in the UK and Ireland, across major partners and smaller independent partners.

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Sophie Trueman appointed as Too Good To Go’s UK and Ireland Managing Director

Linda Stewart — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 10:03:57 +0000

Too Good To Go, the world’s largest food saving app, has announced the appointment of Sophie Trueman as Managing Director for UK and Ireland.

Having first joined Too Good To Go in 2019, Sophie previously held roles as Head of Key Accounts and more recently Head of Business Development for the UK and Ireland.

In her time at Too Good To Go, Sophie has been responsible for driving instrumental new brand partnerships with the likes of Greggs, Morrisons, Pret a Manger, Starbucks and Greene King.

With more than 10 years of experience in the FMCG sector, including roles at L’Oréal and Amadeus, Sophie brings a deep passion for sustainability coupled with strong commercial acumen to the new role.

Commenting on her new position, Sophie said: “I’m thrilled to take on this next challenge at Too Good to Go. We’re on an incredible journey as a company and I am determined to continue this trajectory as we help even more companies save food from going to waste.”

Too Good To Go’s previous UK Managing Director, Paschalis Loucaides, will be taking on the role of Vice President of Operations for Too Good To Go.

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Tackling food waste one meal at a time

Julie Nash — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:21:59 +0000

Independent retailers have saved more than 10,500 meals since signing up with food waste initiative Too Good To Go a year ago.

Nisa partners were among the first independent retailers to join the scheme that helps to tackle food waste while also recover some of the costs of unsold stock.

Too Good To Go, an app created in 2016, is designed to combat the growing problem of wasted food and initially worked in partnership with the food service industry.

Too Good To Go

Around 60 Nisa stores are now working with Too Good To Go reducing food waste in their stores by offering Magic Bags to shoppers.

To date Nisa partners have seen more than 6,600 all-time unique consumers through their doors to make use of the Too Good To Go initiative and in doing so have prevented a massive 26,320kg of CO2 emissions.

Nisa partner Dan Brown of Pinkie Farm, Musselburgh said the concept works brilliantly for him. “Our business is very focused on fresh and with that comes a lot of waste, so we wanted to try and find a solution. Since working with Too Good To Go the amount of food we’ve been throwing away has dramatically decreased, we’ve been saving a lot of money and our customers are thrilled.

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“It’s given us a great image within the community. It’s been fantastic and very easy to use, being set up overnight and it’s been really simple ever since.”

And in Walsall, Amrit Pahal is reaping the benefits of working with Too Good To Go at his family’s store. He said: “We’ve been with Too Good To Go for a while now and I’m proud to say we’re actively tackling our wastage with this ingenious concept!”

Paschalis Loucaides, UK Country Manager at Too Good To Go said: “In just one year our partnership with Nisa has gone from strength to strength.

Eradicating food waste

“Eradicating food waste will only happen when we get brands and local communities on board to fight together and with Nisa, we’re doing just that. With almost 60 partner stores live on our app we’re proud to be helping to ensure that delicious food is being eaten rather than wasted.

“Together, we can create significant impact, and I’m looking forward to seeing many more Nisa stores joining our movement in the future.”

Too Good To Go will be attending the virtual Nisa Expo next month and hope to get more partners engaged in the scheme.

A simple mission

Too Good To Go has a simple mission: to make sure all food gets eaten, not wasted.

In 2016, a group of entrepreneurs witnessed restaurant staff throwing away fresh food. The food’s only problem? It hadn’t sold in time, and no one was around to take it off the restaurant’s hands. The group pioneered a seamless solution: an app that lists businesses’ unsold food so local diners can find, buy and enjoy it.

Magic Bags

Now, thousands of Magic Bags are rescued from businesses such as supermarkets, restaurants, and bakeries every day. The success of the app powers Too Good To Go’s wider efforts to drive a food waste movement, working with schools, industries and governments to build a planet-friendly food system.

Too Good To Go by numbers:

14 countries

50 million meals saved globally

25 million app installs globally

60,000 partner stores globally

2020 became a registered B-Corp

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