X5 Retail Group and AliExpress cooperate on pickup points | Progresiv

From June, shoppers using Russia’s leading eCommerce portal will be able to collect orders from pickup lockers at Pyaterochka, Perekrestok and Karusel stores after X5 Retail Group and AliExpress entered into a new agreement. The deal is between Alibaba’s logistics subsidiary Cainaio and X5’s new X5 OMNI arm, which AliExpress will leverage to channel orders to the stores.

This follows a similar deal between X5 OMNI and Chinese cross-border group Ucharm announced last week. It also leaves some observers wondering as to the future of an earlier agreement from July last year that was to see X5 stores used as pickup points for orders made on Alibaba rival JD.com. (www.kantarretailiq.com)