PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Deliv, the
same-day delivery company, today announced alliances with three of
America's largest mall operators, Simon Property Group, Macerich,
and Westfield, to provide the convenience of same-day service to
shoppers in malls across the U.S. starting this holiday season.
This follows a similar same-day delivery partnership announcement
from General Growth Properties (GGP).
Collectively, the four mall operators manage over 660 malls
including thousands of retailers across the country. Each of the
mall owners are leveraging Deliv's solution and building out the
critical layer of infrastructure including providing runners,
concierge services, safe item storage, shipping consolidation
locations and dedicated parking for crowdsourced delivery
vehicles.
Deliv's breakthrough model for same-day delivery uses
crowdsourced delivery personnel and an intelligent technology
platform to provide premium quality, same-day delivery at
affordable prices. Managing a community of these on-demand drivers
across the country, the Deliv platform incorporates smart routing
and full transparency, including the ability for shoppers
to watch their delivery on a map real time from pickup to
their doorstep.
Shoppers are becoming more tech-savvy and reliant on technology
to provide on-demand services to enhance their shopping experience.
This infrastructure enables all retailers in a mall to offer cost
effective and flexible same-day delivery to their shoppers, making
use of the scale provided by multiple tenants working together in a
single delivery system. For example, a dad and his kids have a
holiday shopping list including clothes, luggage, sports equipment
and something for the family dog. He purchases items from several
Deliv-enabled retailers including Chicos, Naartije Kids, Tumi,
Sport Chalet and Pet Food Express. Rather than carry all his bags
with him from each store, he leaves his bags with the store
associates where he requests the items be delivered to his house
two hours later.
The four mall operators, which serve two billion shoppers a
year, are commencing rollout of Deliv-powered services across nine
malls including GGP's Stonestown Galleria (San Francisco), Eastridge (San Jose), Glendale Galleria (Los Angeles), and Oakbrook Center
(Chicago); Macerich's Santa Monica
Place (Santa Monica) and Westside
Pavilion (Los Angeles); Simon's
Stanford Shopping Center (Palo
Alto); and Westfield's
Century City (Los Angeles) and Valley Fair (Santa Clara).
Each operator has customized its offering, culminating in the
ability to have purchased goods delivered to a shopper's home or
other chosen destination within each mall's defined delivery
area.
"Retailers are mobilizing to deliver customers the best
merchandise in whatever way they prefer," said Daphne Carmeli, CEO of Deliv. "Deliv is powering
the evolution of malls and retail outlets into distribution
centers, creating a massive strategic and logistic advantage over
pure online players. The top 100 retailers have more than 100,000
retail stores in the U.S. alone – all of them potential
distribution centers. When you consider Amazon has approximately
40, you see the strategic opportunity for retailers. It's early in
the cycle, but we are off to a great start with our mall and
retailer partnerships."
"Same-day delivery is a new and developing trend in physical
retail. The mall will be a critical element in this service,
providing a consolidated point of distribution for same-day
delivery and supporting broader omni-channel marketplace trends,"
said Mikael Thygesen, Chief
Marketing Officer of Simon Property Group. "Deliv's crowdsourced
approach is a unique solution, delivering flexibility, service and
convenience for us, our retailers and our shoppers."
"Our partnership with Deliv is another example of our holistic
approach to multichannel retailing and our commitment to support
our mall-based retailers' business strategies through technology
while continuing to improve the overall shopping experience," said
Ken Volk, Chief Marketing Officer of
Macerich. "Same-day delivery is in high demand no matter how a
purchase is made, and our malls can be the hub of distribution for
in-store and online purchasing, facilitating convenience and
immediate shopper gratification."
"There is a huge opportunity to empower the retail ecosystem
through converging new digital technologies into physical
environments that make products and services available to shoppers,
anytime and anywhere at our shopping centers," said
Kevin McKenzie, Global Chief Digital
Officer of Westfield. "Our Westfield Labs team is focused on
piloting emerging technologies and services, like Deliv, that
will help enhance and personalize the overall retailer and
shopper experience. Westfield
has the opportunity to extend new technologies to its 20,000 plus
retailers globally and to benefit the 1.1 billion customer visits
to our U.S. and international locations each year."
For more information, please visit www.deliv.co.
About Deliv
Deliv partners with national multichannel retailers to provide a
low-cost, high quality, same-day delivery service via its
quality-controlled fleet of crowdsourced drivers. By partnering
directly with retailers, the Deliv "same-day delivery" button
becomes a native part of the checkout screen, keeping the direct
relationship between the retailer and the consumer. The Deliv
platform incorporates smart routing and full transparency,
including the ability for consumers to watch their delivery on a
map real time from pick up to their doorstep.
Deliv is headquartered in Palo Alto,
California, and is backed by some of Silicon Valley's
leading venture capital firms.
About Simon Property Group
Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE: SPG) is
an S&P 100 company and a leader in the global retail
real estate industry. The Company currently owns or has an
interest in more than 325 retail real estate properties
in North America and Asia comprising
approximately 242 million square feet. We are headquartered
in Indianapolis, Indiana and employ approximately 5,500
people in the U.S. For more information, visit
simon.com.
About GGP
General Growth Properties is a fully integrated, self-managed
and self-administered real estate investment trust focused
exclusively on owning, managing, leasing and developing high
quality retail properties throughout the
United States. GGP's portfolio is comprised of 122
high-quality retail properties in the
United States comprising approximately 126 million square
feet. GGP is headquartered in Chicago,
Illinois, and publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol
GGP.
About Macerich
Macerich (NYSE:MAC), an S&P 500 Company, is a fully
integrated self-managed and self-administered real estate
investment trust, which focuses on the acquisition, leasing,
management, development and redevelopment of regional malls
throughout the United States.
Macerich currently owns approximately 59 million square feet of
gross leasable area consisting primarily of interests in 57
regional shopping centers. Additional information about Macerich
can be obtained from the Company's website at www.macerich.com.
About Westfield Group
The Westfield Group (ASX Code: WDC) is an internally managed,
vertically integrated, shopping center group undertaking ownership,
development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property
management, leasing and marketing activities and employing
approximately 4,000 staff worldwide. The Westfield Group has
interests in and operates one of the world's largest shopping
center portfolios with investment interests in 91 shopping centers
across Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, encompassing over 20,500 retail
outlets and total assets under management of A$65.8bn.
SOURCE Deliv