Is eCommerce still synonymous – only – with home delivery? No. Packages arrive at home, but also at the store, the corner coffee shop or delivery closets scattered around town. Thus are born the so-called “eCommerce porters,” because it is on the last mile and Proximity Logistics that the challenge is played out.
Lorenzo Maggioni, CEO and Co-founder of GEL Proximity, talked about this in a special interview aired last November 26 on “The Economy of Small Things,” Anna Migliorati‘s radio program on Radio24.
Listen to the interview here (in Italian language)
Below is the incipit of the November 26, 2022 episode.
The hag comes at night, but the courier by day. And if online purchases drop compared to the boom of recent years, true is that last-mile logistics moves millions. Green tax or not we gear up: from smart lockers to coffee shops, stationers, and newsstands becoming the gatekeepers of the e-commerce era. A giant like Amazon last year collected, packed and stowed over 5 billion packages. With all that entails. The watchword is flexibility. Will it be bubble or another revolution in sight for our economy of small things?
