Now the Russians are daily doing in search engines around 150 thousand unique queries about the delivery of food to 15, thousand to a regime of isolation, talk in X5 Retail Group. In “Spermaceti” in late March, recorded a four-fold increase in the demand for grocery delivery services.
Where and how to order products at home
to compensate for the increased demand, the online supermarket Perekrestok.ru 20% expanded its own fleet and has attracted additional partners for the delivery of 20% increased the number of couriers and collectors, indicates the company. And in the “roundabout” at an accelerated rate launched the service of Express delivery that allows you to get the products in the order day, the company said.
“the Platypus Online” just in the last two weeks has hired more than 600 new warehouse staff and increased the number of messengers – at the moment there are more than a thousand, says the company’s representative Julia Volodyaev. Now, “Platypus” serves on average 7.5 thousand orders per day. We have expanded the geography of deliveries: in the “Coswell” seeing an increase in demand for shipping in the far suburbs, outside the Moscow big ring. Previously, the company did not carry the products so far, but decided to start this week.
the agricultural Enterprises to help build the supply chain of food “from field to fork”
However, despite the measures taken, the delivery of products is too long – most of the respondents “Russian newspaper” of the stores admitted that delivering the goods within five to seven days from date of order. To ensure increased demand, was not enough to expand the staff couriers and to find more transpORT. Supply chain rests on the limited resources available to the distribution centers. At the same time to increase them now for the same trade networks makes no sense – when demand returns to normal, increased capacity will be superfluous.
Of the respondents “RG” retailers and online stores only “Platypus” reported that in the operational order plans to open a new mini-warehouse in Moscow, together with the existing distribution center will allow the company to increase the number of service orders for 2.5 million a day.
Couriers have become one of the most popular professions
In the country there is a shortage of distribution centres, said the General Director of holding “Rosagromash” Bogdan Grigorev. According to him, quality modern premises have the only large market players – a Federal network, as well as major producers, processors, distributors. “Dry” storage for the last 10 years there were built many, and multi-temperature represently developers are reluctant. It is difficult to assume future risk of occupancy of such facilities, explains Grigoriev. Build only for a particular client (often the Federal chain) and a firm contract. But small and medium players are not able to afford to build themselves separately under distribution center.
the Construction of modern multi-temperature distribution centre worth billions of rubles. Costly infrastructure and equipment. Often the payback period of such projects is more than 10 years. And in areas less than 5-10 thousand square meters it is unprofitable. The more difficult to find quality space with a refrigeration capacity from 100-200 meters. “A huddle on a Soviet cold-storage facilities, which do not allow high-quality and to effectively provide logistics,” – said the expert. In his opinion, to start such projects require government support in the form of preferential crediting and compensation of the capital costs up to 20%.
will the tenants discounts due to inactivity
For the development of the system of orts (wholesale distribution centers) in the time of the imposition of sanctions was developed by a special state sub-programme and the allocated budget money, says the head of the Center of industrial Economics research financial Institute (nifi) Inna Rykova. But after some time the program was closed. However, in the Strategy of agricultural development until 2030 the objective of the development of a network of ORC remains.
According to Rykov, capacity shortages may occur in regions remote from cities. “State policy should be directed not to support the construction of private hubs. Trade network do just fine without public funds. The aim was to help agricultural enterprises to establish seamless distribution of products – to find bottlenecks, reduce the cost of logistics, to supply chain from field to counter” – said the expert.
