Sant Jordi, day of the book, the rose and the delivery
Story about Sant Jordi, home delivery and how to combat coronavirus


By Routal Team
Operations and product specialists focused on practical logistics content. LinkedIn
Sant Jordi is always a special day, books, roses, queues and people, lots of people. Everyone is out on the street, enjoying a magical day for both children and adults. It is the day of the year when the most books are sold, 7.5% of annual sales In the city of Barcelona.
This year will be special. We'll have to spend it at home, enjoying a good read, our recommendation for these days The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. This year we will save ourselves the hassle of Las Ramblas and we will have to buy the roses online. Without a doubt, a special year.
We want to take advantage of this important date to see the success of initiatives that, in a normal year, would hardly have achieved such overwhelming success.
One of our customers Santjordiacasa.com is using Highway as a tool to optimize the distribution of roses on such a special date as Sant Jordi.
Thanks to the power of the Highway route planner, they have been able to grow in deliveries and reach customers that would have been impossible for them before.
Like them, hundreds of other customers are entering a world such as home delivery. A channel that had often been completely forgotten. Thanks, or unfortunately, COVID-19 has forced the launch of new marketing channels such as Ecommerce and its own distribution and home delivery.
We are seeing this in our traditional customers, distribution companies to the HORECA channel that are converting to home distributors overnight.
Pastry shops such as Cropics they were able to deliver all the Easter monkeys in record time and have the detail of leaving a monkey at my wife's grandmother's house 😁. These types of details make being able to help small businesses make you proud of the work you do and of seeing how you can help more people around you.
We are in a very difficult time for many companies and families. There is little help to get through this crisis and reaching those people we can help is always a challenge. I encourage you to share our story, the story of our users and customers, companies that are embarking on a new adventure, delivery. Without experience, without processes, but with a desire to fight and face the corona, you are not alone.
We won this together.
By Routal Team
Operations and product specialists focused on practical logistics content. LinkedIn
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