Click and Collect - lifeline for fast food?

By : Administrator
Published 18th February 2015 |
Read latest comment - 16th March 2015

Hows this for innovation?

According to marketing week, McDonalds is looking at click and collect as a way of embracing technology and winning back hearts and minds from a smart phone customer base.

What a great idea! Works for Tescos and other retailers, why not fast food? Click and collect burgers, maybe we'll soon see pizzas, off licences? 

As we become ever more dependant on our smart phones, I suppose we are about to move into a click and collect app generation, as opposed to us older folk that had Dominoes Pizza on speed dial. Or was that just me? 

No doubt we will shortly have new super sites/apps designed purely for smart phones allowing you to click and collect whatever you want, from any supplier, with outlets available 24/7 feeding the impulse and on demand generation. 

Be interesting to see if the likes of just-eat.co.uk embrace this change as they are well positioned. Further food for thought (ahem) if you needed it that the digital world is shrinking and your website needs to be accessible and fully usable on a smart phone.

Could you utilise click and collect for your business? Does anyone think this is just a passing fad?


Steve Richardson
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I was talking to someone who works at Maccy Ds and click and collect is being introduced at our local store. I think you order it at one place and collect it at another, a bit like drive through but you're walking! I suppose for them it cuts down on waste and for us food is cooked freshly.

i think they have missed the point though, people want healthier food now and I think I heard that profits are down? I wonder what happened to the mccafe?


Angela
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I wonder what happened to the mccafe?”
 

It seems mccafe is about to get a big boost!

McDonald’s readies biggest investment in McCafé - marketing week

The company is to launch “McCafé moments”, a partnership with Channel 4 that it hopes will establish it as a destination for premium beverages.

The ten-month collaboration will see 40 pieces of content aired that showcase a series of conversations between “real people” drinking McCafé beverages. The Gogglebox inspired clips will see them talking about what’s happening on their favourite Channel 4 programs, such as Location, Location, Location or Made in Chelsea.


Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
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