At FPP we consider the sharing of content and knowledge to be one of our principal responsibilities. We’ve created FPP Checkout to allow us to deliver against this.

The purpose of this platform is to simplify the consumption of content. With so many sources in both the offline and online world, it’s easy to fall behind on essential reading. Checkout finds relevant, up-to-date information and delivers it to you in one easily-accessible environment. What’s more, we also use Checkout to provide FPP category analysis and opinion whenever and wherever relevant.

Checkout is a platform designed with you in mind. And that doesn’t just apply to the content we deliver, but also the way in which we deliver it. We provide information that isn’t just relevant to the industry as a whole, but relevant to you as an individual.

If you click on ‘My Account’, you’ll be able to select the categorical content that is of interest to you. This will allow us to prioritise the content that we know you like.

We use a number of sources for the articles featured on Checkout. Whilst we won’t necessarily cover all of the publications you access, below is a list of the most common to try and give you as much as possible in one place:
The Grocer Talking Retail

My Account

Co-op expands robot deliveries to second store

The Co-op has begun delivering by robot from a second store.

The convenience retailer has been using autonomous robots to make deliveries in under an hour from a store in Monkston, Milton Keynes, for a year, and has now added the town’s Emerson Valley branch.

It is the Co-op’s second rapid delivery rollout inside two weeks, after launching a two-hour service by electric cargo bike from a store on London’s King’s Road in Chelsea.

The robots are from tech startup Starship Technologies, and also deliver from a Tesco Extra in Milton Keynes. Starship provides the app on which orders are placed. 

Delivery costs just £1, with no minimum basket value. The groceries are now picked in-store by Co-op staff, where they were previously picked by Starship. They are then put in a locked compartment which can only be opened by the customer using the app at the other end of the robot’s unaccompanied journey. 

The robots travel up to two miles from the store at up to 4mph and have fulfilled orders in as little as 15 minutes.

Source: The Grocer Apr 2 | In-store Analysis | Innovation

£520,000

The rollout of the robot delivery service coincided with a £520,000 refurbishment of the Emerson Valley branch