YOU need that vital package, but you can’t wait around for a delivery man, especially as you need to be travelling all day, constantly in and out of meetings.
Well now Volvo has an answer – delivery to your car, wherever it might be parked…
The system works thanks to the recently-introduced Volvo digital key technology, which allows car owners to open up their vehicles to delivery companies for a short period, without the owner needing to be with the car.
Having placed an order online and chosen the car as a delivery option, the owner is informed, through a smartphone or a tablet, that the delivery company is ready to drop off the goods.
The owner then releases a digital key to the delivery company through the smartphone, and can then track the opening of the car door, and when it is locked again. Once the car is locked, the digital key ceases to exist.
While offering the potential to have your weekly shopping waiting for you in the car, saving a tedious trip to Tesco after a hard day’s work, the system has more serious business possibilities.
Volvo says that last year alone 60 per cent of people experienced delivery problems through online shopping and failed first-time deliveries cost the industry an estimated €1billion in re-delivering costs.
