The on demand robot delivery service is now available to almost 150,000 local residents in the town.
Starship Technologies, the world’s leading provider of autonomous delivery services, and the Co-op have today announced the expansion of their partnership in Northampton, with an additional 31,000 households in the town now able to access grocery delivery via a fleet of Starship robots.
A year to the day since the launch of the service in Northampton, Starship has today confirmed that residents in Boothville, Great Billing, Hopping Hill and Spinney Hill will now be able to benefit from on-demand grocery delivery from a further three Co-op stores via its robots, which are powered by zero carbon electricity.
The online orders are picked fresh from local Co-op stores, which act as micro-distribution hubs in the community and, scheduled to arrive at a convenient time of day. Co-op was the first UK supermarket to use autonomous robot deliveries, the latest development means that deliveries are now made from six Co-op stores in Northampton, communities in Wootton, Upton, Duston, Abington and Weston Favell are already able to benefit from robot deliveries.
