Sainsbury's expanding shopping pick-up service
Sainsbury's is to expand its Click & Collect service, allowing more customers to load their online orders within three minutes of driving to the Click & Collect zone. The supermarket plans to double its participating stores to 200 by year end.

Shoppers tired of waiting around at home for online orders are being lured back to supermarkets offering services that let them pick up their wares from car parks.

Sainsbury’s is hoping to win over time-pressed shoppers by doubling its Click & Collect sites after seeing a surge in demand.

Customers order online, but instead of waiting for their shopping to be delivered they pop to a store and drive into the Click & Collect zone where it is loaded straight into their boot. Sainsbury’s estimates that it takes shoppers around three minutes to drive in and pick up their bags of shopping.

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The store launched its Click & Collect services last year with 100 stores taking part. It plans to have the service at 200 by the end of this year.