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Fresh St. adds refrigerated lockers for click-and-collect

Canadian food retailer Fresh St. Market has added refrigerated pickup lockers at its stores to support its click-and-collect business.

Jon Springer, Executive Editor

April 19, 2016

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Canadian food retailer Fresh St. Market has added refrigerated pickup lockers at its stores to support its click-and-collect business.

The lockers, positioned in front of Fresh St.'s stores in West Vancouver and Fleetwood, British Columbia, are available 24 hours a day and are accessed via PIN codes for online shoppers selecting to pick up. Lockers are provided by Australian company Vlocker, which supplies similar equipment for the Coles chain there and for other retailers in Europe.

According to local reports, officials of Fresh St. parent company H.Y. Louie have plans to test the locker concept for six months and are considering additional lockers off-site.

Fresh Street is charging $3.99 per order for the pickup service vs. $7.95 for home delivery of internet orders.

About the Author

Jon Springer

Executive Editor

Jon Springer is executive editor of Winsight Grocery Business with responsibility for leading its digital news team. Jon has more than 20 years of experience covering consumer business and retail in New York, including more than 14 years at the Retail/Financial desk at Supermarket News. His previous experience includes covering consumer markets for KPMG’s Insiders; the U.S. beverage industry for Beverage Spectrum; and he was a Senior Editor covering commercial real estate and retail for the International Council of Shopping Centers. Jon began his career as a sports reporter and features editor for the Cecil Whig, a daily newspaper in Elkton, Md. Jon is also the author of two books on baseball. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Journalism from the University of Delaware. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his family.

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