After several years operating in France, the Shopopop company arrives in Spain with a proposal that its founders resemble Blablacar, although within the world of parcel delivery. And it is that It is a collaborative delivery service in which we can act as delivery menalthough with a peculiarity: we can’t make a job of this.
Thanks to the round of financing of 20 million euros that they have managed to raise, Shopopop arrives in Spain, specifically in Madridbeing the only city in which this service is available at the moment.
A collaborative delivery service that we cannot turn into a job
Through a model in which its founders call ‘crowdshipping‘, the aim is to make home deliveries more flexible, affordable and sustainable. Its operation depends on the company that hires this service. In this way, when the user places an online order and wants it to be delivered to their home, if the package is going to be delivered by a company that is collaborating with Shopopop, the particular delivery person can see the parcel in the app and decide to deliver it to the person.
The idea is that the user who uses the application distributes occasionally, that is, to do it, for example, when he thinks that there may be a gap between a daily route that goes from work to home. The main difference with services like Glovo is that this cannot become a job, as there are certain restrictions for it. The main one of all is the collection, being a minimum of 4 euros. Antoine Cheul, co-founder of the company, comments in an interview for ‘El Confidencial’ that users usually make an average of ten monthly deliveries, receiving between 5 and 8 euros per package.
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Its founders liken the service to Blablacar, illustrating it as follows:
“If you have to go from Madrid to Barcelona for any reason, you advertise the trip on BlaBlaCar, but you don’t do it thinking of making money. Shopopop is the same, a small supplement to pay for gasoline.”
In addition to Spain, the service also operates in other countries
Defined by its creators as a ‘social shipping network’, it was founded in 2016 in Nantes, France. Its service collaborates with more than 1,700 businesses in the country, and also operates in Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands. The growing demand for home deliveries, further fueled by the pandemic, has made the service a breath of fresh air for parcel companies. According to its creators, they saw it as logical to take their service to Spain, since in addition to being a neighboring country, they claim that the type of consumption is similar.
In Spain they are currently working with businesses such as groceries, supermarkets and florists. At the moment it is only available in Madrid, and the tendency of users is to always use the car to make deliveries. Of course, from Shopopop they assure that they ‘do not touch’ the end customer’s dataso they are only stored in stores that have collaborated with the service.