Currys and sister chain PC World have introduced a handful of new delivery options for technology-obsessed customers including a same-day service.
With a few catches.
The chains, owned by parent group Dixons Retail, will offer customers three new choices. It will offer the option of ordering before 9.30am with deliveries arriving later the same day between 6.30pm and 10pm.
A similar next-day service will offer customers delivery between 6:30pm and 10pm on orders made before midnight the previous day. While a Sunday delivery slot will offer the option of receiving goods between 2:30pm and 6pm allowing for 'more flexibility, suiting customers' 21st century lives,' the press release says.
The seven-day service, offered in partnership with Royal Mail Courier Service, will be available 362 days a year, excluding only Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and New Years Day.
Clearly the same-day service does not include Sunday but let's assume they include Saturdays. However, the service is restricted to small box parcels - all products 'excluding large home appliances,' fridges and freezers for example, and TVs over 39".
It also excludes most of the country - launching in Greater London and 'other selected post codes' with plans to extend the service to other areas in the short-term, the company says.
The same day service costs a reasonable £14.99 and the next day service is priced from £4.99.
Exciting for those in dire need or that just can't survive another day without that new set of 'phones.
But, for the moment at least, promising slightly more than it is delivering with the service only really available in London leaving the rest of the country waiting by the letter box in the hope it gets there before the weekend - like the good old days.
No comments:
Post a Comment