Pingo Doce
Jerónimo Martins Supermarket advances this week with the Pingo Doce Online service, available in Lisbon and Porto, which wants to extend throughout the country.
Continent and Auchan already has an online platform where purchases can be made. The Pingo Doce, however, slaughtering its first online supermarket in 2003.
So far, it was possible to buy products from this supermarket in a marketplace detained by Glovo, o. But Pingo Doce advances this week with the Pingo Doce Online website, where it will be possible to purchase the products of the retailer.
For now, however, the availability of this service is linked to Lisbon and Porto, although there are system expansion plans to other districts. In these two zones, the service is available from this Wednesday (14).
“Although collaboration with Mercadão had been a foray into online sales that made it possible to give access to comfort with convenience, we realized that giving our customers a FULL EXPERIENCE ON ONLINE PURCHASE In Pingo Doce it would not be possible using third parties, of this to Francisco Soure, the director of innovation and digital of Pingo Doce.
“The option for Provide the service in a phase It holds with our focus on ensuring that we take safe steps, knowing that entry on this channel presupposes a learning curve, ”says walks the person in charge. “The service will ensure the coverage of the majority of the territory of the cities of Lisbon and Portoand we intend to ensure the first two weeks the total coverage of these metropolitan areas ”.
“Forhome delivery to home, we foresee coverage of the main focuses of demand (urban centers and vacation destinations) in the continental territory during the early summer, ”he says.
“At that time, we will guarantee the national coverage with the click & Collect service, allowing all customers to shop online and collect in store,” he explains. To pay, you can use credit card or debit or MBway. The goal is to expand the service to Apple Pay and Google Pay.
