Makro has acquired a majority stake in last mile delivery start-up, WumDrop, for an undisclosed sum.
Makro says the acquisition will shrink the window between customer order placement and delivery from three days to three hours for customers located within 20km of a Makro store.
"We're incredibly excited to work so closely with a business like Makro, which backs our mission to eradicate the anxiety one normally experiences while waiting for a delivery; that your delivery guy might or might not get to you at some point in the giant window between 9am and 5pm," says WumDrop founder, Simon Hartley.
Makro has already rolled WumDrop out to 16 stores in Durban, Cape Town, Pretoria, and Johannesburg. It says the initial results are pleasing; with a turnaround time from customer order placement to completed delivery in less than two and a half hours.
"WumDrop just works. Their tech is extremely flexible and solid, allowing integration with any retailer big or small, and after extensive testing it was apparent to us that their solution provided the kind of transparency, speed and flexibility for our customers that we just couldn't say no to," says Dean Bauer, Makro Supply Chain Director
WumDrop offers multiple delivery service levels including on demand, after hours, and same day delivery at discounted rates for business customers in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban. Existing WumDrop customers include The Foschini Group, BOTTLES, Standard Bank, and Zando.
WumDrop was the 2015 MTN Business App Of The Year winner.
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