New click-and-collect facility planned for Hereford Tesco

The supermarket has submitted a planning application (number 242570) to create a new covered click-and-collect parking area at its Belmont Road store in the southwest of Hereford.

On part of the current car park to the immediate west of the supermarket, the four-bay, 70-square-metre area would be covered by a double red canopy on steel posts, protected by 23 metre-high black “flex bollards”.

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These would also be used around the existing two click-and-collect bays immediately alongside the store, which would no longer be available for parking, but which would be linked to the new pick-up zone by a crossing, plans submitted with the application show.

Tesco currently offers click-and-collect from around 300 of its supermarkets, according to retail analysts Nielsen, which says traditional retailers “can compete with the likes of Amazon by using their network of stores as micro-fulfilment centres”.

Homeware giant Ikea recently said it plans to double the number of Tesco click-and-collect points through which its customers can pick up orders, to 200 stores.

Another market research firm, eMarketer, reckoned that last year over 15 per cent of UK e-commerce orders were fulfilled by click-and-collect – almost double the pre-pandemic figure.