B&Q Partners With DPD For Autonomous Robot Delivery Trial

Retail Week reports that B&Q and DPD have partnered for an autonomous robot delivery trial in Milton Keynes. 

Supply and logistics director for B&Q, Amélie Gallichan-Todd, said in a LinkedIn post:

“I am really proud of the work we’re doing to improve our fulfilment services to give our customers more choice of when and how their B&Q purchases are delivered.

“We already offer different options including one hour and 24 hour click and collect from our 300 stores, home delivery direct from 52 stores, and home delivery from our central distribution centres as well as direct from drop ship vendors.

“We’re already the second-biggest liquified natural gas fleet in the country and are adding electric vehicles to our home delivery fleet later this year.

“We’re also trialling alternative ways of delivering products to home, such as our trial in Milton Keynes with DPD UK to deliver customers’ orders to home using autonomous robots.”

Earlier this week, B&Q announced that it has partnered with Deliveroo for a delivery-on-demand service in London, offering over 600 home improvement products for rapid delivery in as little as 25 minutes.

Image : DPD

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