Fylde coast shop deliveries service set to expand

Delivery service Click2shopitlocal was launched by Sean Ryan in March the week before lockdown happened to encourage people to use local and independent retailers in a bid to support the beleaguered high street.

Using a team of, at the time, out of work taxi drivers to deliver the goods to people’s homes, it allowed people to get orders from their favourite local stores.

The dad-of-two, who also has a jet-washing firm said he wanted to do something to support local businesses and the community.

He said: “It caught on and went like wildfire. All the shops started getting involved and turned into this mass delivery service.

“We created a community of 5,400 people who have stuck with us and we delivered to 2,600 people. It slowed down as lockdown eased. But now I have launched it again and people have gone crazy for it again as local restrictions came in.

“It supports the community and we don’t charge for disabled people or over 70s, and its supports the local shops such as the florists as well as the corner shops.

“We are hoping to go across Lancashire with this and we want all the little local shops to join us and get in touch. If shops want to advertise their business on our website they can do. That is where the commerce side comes in for me as a business.

“Lockdown has brought a success story out of a horrible situation.

“From the £5 fee, £3 goes to the driver, £1 to the business and £1 to the NHS.”

“We got in touch with Bobby Ball who had one of our deliveries. We recorded it and put it on Facebook and it went crazy. So with the opening of Click2shopitlocal, the brand new website, I wanted him to open it as he was the face of the Facebook group. MP Scott Benton was there for the opening too.

Norman Luke web design of Preston created the website originally which was brilliant also PC Jonas Bartle helped us with the drivers’ passes.