AI in Logistics: Transforming the Logistics Industry
AI in Logistics: Transforming the Logistics Industry Efficiency has always been a foundational value of the logistics industry. However, as global supply chains become more complex and customer…
Best Ways to Optimise Last Mile Logistics
Best Ways to Optimise Last Mile Logistics Being the last leg in the supply chain, last mile deliveries are notorious for being the costliest and most time-consuming. And it’s about to get worse - at…
DocTap’s in-house fleet was distracting them from growth. Here’s how we helped
DocTap is part of a new generation of healthcare providers focussed on improving access to healthcare when and where people need it - offering same day GP appointments across London, supported by…
Green Logistics: How to Make Your Operations Greener
The logistics industry accounts for 9% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and with the growing awareness around global warming and climate change, companies need to act. And while we know there’s…
Urgent vs Direct Deliveries: What’s the difference and how to book them
There’ll often come a time when you need to move things from A to B as a matter of urgency, but you might not know which delivery service to pick. We’re going to run through 2 of the fastest same…
Last mile delivery: Explained
While every link in the supply chain plays a vital role in getting parcels to where they need to be, last mile delivery is the make-or-break moment for retailers and their customers. Handle it…
Ship from Store: What is it, benefits, and how to get set up
It’s no wonder ship from store has taken off in the last few years. It speeds up inventory management (allowing retailers to hop on trends), offers customers speedy delivery and has its…
How peaky businesses are getting ready for peak deliveries, 2023-style
The Xmas / Black Friday peak period is important for just about every business - holiday sales typically make up about 20% of annual retail purchases. And we're heading into a holiday season where…
How Motion Picture Solutions meet urgent same day delivery deadlines nationwide with Gophr’s direct, sustainable fleet
Motion Picture Solutions (MPS) masters and delivers world-class content for major studios and independent distributors. Challenge is: there’s lots of high-value moving parts, lots of bookers and ever…
How Leyland SDM rolled out a turnkey same day solution to all 33 stores with Gophr’s versatile fleet
Recognising the busy schedules of London’s tradespeople, Leyland SDM understood the importance of time, as it often equates to money lost when tradespeople have to leave job sites to collect tools or…
How Gophr supported Asda to deliver their award-winning Express service; the full online product range delivered to your door same-day
After establishing themselves in the rapid grocery space, Asda wanted a different kind of offer that delivered what their customers really wanted; a full range of groceries, delivered in as little as…
How Screwfix Sprint, the first of its kind on-demand delivery service, went from pilot to 300 stores nationwide
Screwfix understands how busy the nation’s tradespeople are, and for many, time is money when they have to leave the site to collect the required tools or materials to complete a job. As part of…
A courier’s guide to sustainable packaging
As demands for quick and convenient shipping stay strong, it’s easy to overlook one critical element: the packaging. Climate change and consumer demand is pushing sustainable packaging high…
Christmas 2022 last posting dates
Just a quick heads up that Gophr is ‘open’ and delivering EVERY DAY over the Xmas period - even on Christmas Day* should you need us. With industrial action causing all sorts of postage backlogs,…
How localising delivery can reduce your footprint
Ship-from-store and micro-fulfilment centres (MFCs) are at the core of new sustainable logistics models as they are placed closer to consumers, reducing delivery times and offering more efficient…
A courier’s guide to reducing failed deliveries
There’s much more to sustainable deliveries than just electric vehicles. Failed deliveries (late, missed, lost or wrong) are one of the key contributors to delivery emissions. On average in the UK,…
How leading electrical wholesaler, Rexel, launched their ship-from-store same day delivery service, Rexel Rapid, to help keep tradespeople on the tools
Rexel is combining the power of Gophr’s nationwide couriers and their local branches to provide tradespeople with the supplies they urgently need with a 90 minute delivery service, Rexel Rapid. The…
Food Deliveries: The World Cup vs Christmas
Christmas is always a time of great indulgence, with festive treats piling high on dining tables throughout the holiday season. But this year, the run-up to Christmas will be a little different, as…
Logistipedia: The ultimate guide to logistics lingo
We’re delivery people not jargon people. So we’ve rustled up a list of logistics jargon that we’ve attempted to un-pretzel into regular lingo. Hopefully it’ll help demystify those key logistic terms…
How Gophr is helping to transform the on-demand courier landscape with a rewarding benefits programme
This blog post was originally written by Onsi and uploaded to their blog on 17/07/2022. Gophr is a same-day delivery platform with a difference. Actually, quite a few differences – one of the most…
Upgraded courier protection and benefit packages with Onsi
Every self-employed worker should get easy access to benefits and protection, to support their everyday life and help them to feel secure and valued in their place of work. Which is why we were the…
Most Popular Delivery Drivers on TikTok
How better to boost brand awareness than with your very own TikTok star? TikTok has been the leading force in some of the craziest trends over the last few years including Zoom meeting mishaps,…
How Qured built one of the UKs biggest at-home medical testing networks (and won a major airline contract) powered by on-demand same-day delivery
Qured has always focussed on at-home services, but over the course of the pandemic, it pivoted from a GP visiting service to become one of the UK's leading rapid testing providers. A pivot made…
March News Roundup: Comebacks
Our monthly roundup of industry news is published in our newsletter: Gophr Delivered. If you'd like to get these delivery-shaped nuggets in your inbox, you can subscribe here. It’s been 2…
Gophr x Parcelly: increasing urban logistics efficiency with our hub-to-home collaboration
We've teamed up with Parcelly to help tackle the urban logistics challenge by combining their hyper-local warehousing with our last-mile delivery. Parcelly has over 2,500 hyper-local warehousing…
Working with couriers to deliver office culture to remote workers
This article appeared originally on Hofy's website on 15/03/2022 This month marks two years of a world gone remote, catalysed by the COVID-19 crisis. And yet, even two years in, many remote and…
How to make the most of your Shopify store with the Gophr x Zapiet integration
Gophr has now integrated with Zapiet's app, Zapiet - Pickup + Delivery, which means customers can generate quotes at checkout, create delivery jobs, receive status updates and cancel jobs, all from…
Floral delivery issues: What do consumers complain most about on Twitter?
The first floral delivery service was founded by 15 American florists in 1910. Nowadays you can send flowers for pretty much anything from showing appreciation, sending congratulations, mourning a…
How iSmash launched a nationwide same-day service to take ultimate convenience to their customers
In Spring 2020, when lockdown required everyone to stay behind closed doors, iSmash turned to Gophr to help adapt their existing repair service. With everyone clearing through the dreaded junk drawer…
4 questions about how to build a dedicated in-house delivery fleet – and the answers you need
Businesses of every size are benefiting from the boom in online shopping. Online shopping is one of the most popular activities worldwide, with e-retail revenues projected to surpass $8.1 trillion…
4 Ways to Get Better at Delivery as a Florist
As spring quickly approaches, florists need to get ready for their busiest time of year. Union Fleurs, the International Flower Trade Association, reports that the peak seasons for flowers are…
A Courier’s Guide to Remote Work Delivery
Hybrid working looks set to continue for many businesses across the UK even after all the Coronavirus restrictions are lifted. Which means there’s added complexity for PAs, EAs and TAs who now have…
5 Ways Same Day Delivery Can Help Printers
On-demand printing remains a large industry, one that is still viable and competitive, even in the digital age. According to Print Business, for instance, the numbers for 2018 showed that printing,…
How ethical grocer, Farmdrop, met festive surge demand through a flexible same day fleet
When a business relies on last-mile logistics to deliver perishable goods, demand fluctuations are a common issue. Investing in a small in-house fleet avoids wasted capacity, but what happens when…
Gophr’s SMB Guide: How to launch same day delivery
In the fast-paced world that we live in, where hyper-fast grocery startups are getting goods to customers in 10 minutes, it’s no surprise that people expect everything possible to be delivered…
How is Peak uncertainty affecting your carrier plans?
Peak stress? Here’s what you can do... Trying to predict exactly what will be thrown at retailers this peak season is a little like trying to nail jelly to the wall. The pandemic, global supply chain…
How leading digital agency, Brainlabs, took their company culture remote thanks to same-day delivery
When the world went into lockdown, businesses quickly realised that the office culture they’d spent years building was quite a challenge to share with remote workers. Our same-day courier service…
How many people still miss deliveries despite working from home?
We have seen a major shift in remote working over the last two years with many professionals working remotely. At the end of the Coronavirus job retention scheme in September 2021, 16% of businesses…
How Phlo, the UK’s first same-day, online pharmacy is using quick and secure delivery to drive national expansion and disrupt an industry
Some things are straightforward to deliver, but when it comes to medication, it’s a different ballgame. This is something digital pharmacy, Phlo, knows all too well; consider a long list of security…
How retail tech platform, Dropit, delivered ‘hands-free’ shopping during the pandemic
Despite shops reopening last June, footfall for Central London retailers was down 72%. Tourists and locals alike were wary of visiting stores like they used to. Our couriers helped Dropit to give…
How Co-op rolled out their same-day delivery service from local pilot to 200 stores nationwide in 6 months
Co-op, the nation’s convenience store, wanted to expand rapidly and reliably. After establishing a convenience store in every corner of the land, they faced the challenge of finding a delivery…
Stronger, faster, better: How electric bikes have helped us triple the size of our London bike zone
First up, what is the bike zone? It’s the designated area in London where your Gophr deliveries are eligible to be booked on push bikes or cargo bikes. And triple the size. Really? Yep 3x. Made…
Gophr x Hofy: Helping remote workers feel right at home
WFH went from being a hard-won perk to being standard practice overnight. But if people can't come to the office, you need to take the office to them. That's a lot of bulk to deliver, and that's…
Same Day Delivery comes in many different ‘flavours’
Same day delivery was once associated with bouquets of flowers, legal documents and forgotten keys. Fast forward a lockdown or three, with people demanding greater convenience, same day is fast…
How to run a same day delivery pilot
Same-day delivery is a simple concept that’s difficult to get right in practice. Getting it right requires a well-planned pilot programme; with a clearly defined objective, and all the important…
Hub to Home: Bundled or unbundled?
There’s a maxim in delivery that the ‘last mile’ is the most difficult and expensive of all the miles. Estimates put it at 40 - 50% of the total fulfilment cost, and that’s before you factor in the…
Supporting our people and the planet
We think of sustainability as being two-fold; people and planet. We’ve always worked very hard at making sure we go further than others in our sector on the people side, making sure we do better by…
Some big news… Series A funding is done
Reaching Series A funding has been a long time coming for us and we've spent the last 5-6 years really trying to understand every inch of the industry, and getting ourselves in position to be really…
