date:Sep 09, 2013
o online known as dark stores. Click and collect also means they can spend less on home delivery, often prohibitively expensive outside densely-populated urban areas.
Food and consumer goods research group IGD predicts drive-thru will propel French online grocery sales to 10.6 billion euros ($13.98 billion) by 2016 from 6.7 billion in 2013, while it sees home delivery push UK online grocery to 11.4 billion euros in 2016 from 7.4 billion in 2013.
Stephen Mader, analyst at Kantar Retail, said re