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What Shopit
Shopit is part of the Trendwell Co. group of
commercial activities (www.trendwell.lu) in Luxembourg, a company
established in 1988.
We consolidate and forward grocery orders for faraway markets,
receive goods at our storage facilities, segregate and deliver.
How does Shopit work
The idea of
faraway purchases is as such nothing new. There are many
expatriate shops, local or internet based, most of which
unfortunately have either a rather limited selection of products,
exorbitant prices and/or high delivery costs. Groceries do not
export and exporting wholesalers deal only pallet wise.
Through our contacts with major wholesalers in the sourcing
countries our customers gain access to thousands and thousands of
local products in faraway markets. We consolidate our customer
orders and forward them as a bulk order to the wholesalers who
ship us the goods. Once the goods arrive at our local storage
facilities they are segregated and delivered to each customer.
The whole delivery chain is temperature regulated. This concept has been time tested and running since 2005.
Order amounts
Products are
offered in wholesale amounts which nevertheless does not equal as
big quantities: more
than 60% of the wholesale
amounts in the current selection consist of 10
units or less and about
90% have a total value of
less than 15 €.
One wholesale amount (=ME) of Valio sour milk is 5x1 litres,
1 ME of Saarioinen
cabbage rolls is one 2 kg package and 1 ME of Fazer's Blue Milk
Chocolate is 35 bars. One ME has 12x200 g packs of frozen
Pakkasmarja lingon berries or 6 packs of Saarioinen 400 g liver
casseroles, TOLU-spray bottles come in 5 pieces, as well as copper sauna
buckets etc etc... Many products can even be ordered in smaller
quantities than in MEs (these products are marked
red
in the Product files).
How to order
Orders are
consolidated once a month. Order deadlines can be found on top of this
page.
- Download the Shopit FI
spreadsheet (Excel-spreadsheet*)
-
Mark your purchases in the "Order cases" column
- Save &
send the spreadsheet to
us (shopit@trendwell.lu).
- You get a
confirmation of your order and payment instructions
- Delivery is after eight days subsequent to
the order week, in the evenings
- Delivery time is notified per email at the
beginning of the delivery week. Most
commonly it is given in form:
"Tuesday 18-21"
- Payment is against invoice after the delivery within 7 days.
* Should
you not have access to Microsoft Excel, then you can use e.g. the
OpenOffice spreadsheet program from Sun/Oracle to open the
downloaded Excel-files. You can download OpenOffice for free from
the following link:
http://www.openoffice.org/.
Delivery costs
- Zone I: 7,00 € (delivery 0-30 km from
Luxembourg / along the E411 motorway from
Luxembourg to Brussels and the
Brussels area)
- Zone II: 14,00 € (delivery 30-50 km from
Luxembourg city centre)
- Surcharge for small orders: 7,00 € (for
orders less than 80 € of value).
We
do not keep stock. We do not run a shop. We consolidate orders and
distribute to the customers. This low cost and low risk structure
benefits directly the
customers by
enabling an enormous
product range and reasonable
pricing.
Shopit works !
Let it work also for you.
For more
information please contact Timo at (352)-691-963 963 or
shopit@trendwell.lu.
Product details
are updated periodically. The date when details have last been
updated can be found in the far left corner of the Shopit FI
spreadsheet.
The customer is
responsible for finding out whether the ordered products are
suitable for purchase - if for local regulations or shelf life
reasons. Shopit FarawayGroceries shall not be liable should the
recipient Customs require additional fee/tax or confiscate the
items or the package is being opened for inspection..
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