{"id":63,"date":"2009-04-13T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T06:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-04-13T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T06:59:57","slug":"uk-supermarket-chain-now-using-ebikes-for-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"UK supermarket chain now using ebikes for deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44841000\/jpg\/_44841918_waitrosebike_226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/>c\/o the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/dorset\/7992505.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>: UK Supermarket chain Waitrose has begun a small pilot program with four stores for groceries purchased online to be delivered by electric-assist cargo bikes.\u00a0 The bikes can carry up to 6 trays of groceries and keep food frozen for 2 hours. While the bikes will only be doing a small portion of deliveries the store makes, it&#8217;s a step in the right direction and the store will not need to purchase any new delivery vehicles for the time being &#8211; with any luck this will be the way they&#8217;ll continue to grow their delivery fleet!<\/p>\n<p>Full story and video available <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/dorset\/7992505.stm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>c\/o the BBC: UK Supermarket chain Waitrose has begun a small pilot program with four stores for groceries purchased online to be delivered by electric-assist cargo bikes.\u00a0 The bikes can carry up to 6 trays of groceries and keep food frozen for 2 hours. While the bikes will only be doing a small portion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anectdotes","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}