Barnes Community Online Shop Launches

BCA and Ginger launch online home delivery service

Over the last few months I have been working with a local e-transport business Ginger on a project to enable residents to shop with Barnes businesses online. This project was part of a longer-term initiative to digitalise our local high streets but with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic we have pushed our plans forward at a pace. 

 The Barnes Community Shop www.barnescommunityshop.com. enables residents to shop from three local food suppliers - Barnes Fruit and Veg in the High Street, Londis on Church Road and ilocal on White Hart Lane - and to have their order delivered on our eco-friendly bike. If our project is successful, we will expand it to include more Barnes businesses.

We are launching our service with a limited number of delivery slots every day and will try to expand these over time. We are also limiting the order size so we can do as many deliveries as possible. Just like Ocado and other online delivery services, we are asking customers to leave the slots for residents who are in isolation or find it difficult to get out. If you can get out to buy your groceries, please continue to support our local shops.