One
day in the future, shopping at Hi-Lo Store can be done online. But if you
decide to go to a Hi-Lo Store, you may find the express line is a bit
different!
GraceKennedy,
not satisfied with their Hi-Lo Stores, have plans to introduce self-checkout
machines as reported in the article “Self-checkout
for Hi-Lo?” published Wednesday, March 14, 2018 by Karena Bennett, The Jamaica Observer.
GK
Group CEO Don Wehby made this announcement at an investor briefing on Thursday
8th of March 2018.
GraceKennedy
is predicting that with the right capital investment and training customer will
like the idea of shopping online from a Hi-Lo Store by the end of 2018 as
reported in my blog article entitled “How
GraceKennedy Hi-Lo Online e-commerce features MPay and Courier delivery”.
Already
they've renovated the following locations:
1. Hi-Lo
Manor Park in 2014
2. Hi-Lo
Barbican in 2015
3. Hi-Lo
Liguanea and Montego Bay in 2016
4. Portmore
Pines Hi-Lo Food Store in 2017
The
rest of their chain of 13 Hi-Lo stores islandwide will be renovated a cost of
US$8 million, with Hi-Lo Cross Roads in Kingston and Hi-Lo Spanish Town to be
completed in 2018.
So
how does this tie in with their shopping online?
GraceKennedy and Hi-Lo
Upgrades – Online Shopping with GK MPay using remittances
Clearly,
they’re trying to become the Amazon of shopping in Jamaica.
With
an online website for their renovated stores, GraceKennedy may be making it
possible for Jamaicans to call their relatives abroad and have them purchase
groceries and delivered to their front door.
Alternatively,
you can receive your remittances in your Bank Account from Western Union as
explained in my blog
article entitled “How
Western Union Cash to Bank Program may boost GK MPay Push if BOJ makes it
Mandatory”.
Then
you can use MPay to purchase your groceries and have them delivered to your
home.
This
may suit their clever long term to encourage more use of their GK MPay platform
as noted in my Geezam blog article entitled “How to get Jamaicans to
use Quisk, GK MPay for more than just Phone Credit”.
Combined
with a push towards cryptocurency as predicted in my Geezam blog article entitled “GraceKennedy’s Innovation Lab
planning to launch a GK MPay cryptocurrency” this will definately be a
win-win for customers and GraceKennedy.
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