Lidl unveils pay-as-you-go car at County Roscommon store – News – Roscommon Herald

Lidl Ireland has expanded its partnership with GoCar, Ireland’s largest car and van sharing service, to install a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) car at its Cortober store in North Roscommon.

The Roscommon car is among a fleet of 100 pay-as-you-go (PAYG) cars to rent across 50 Lidl stores throughout Ireland. The pay-as-you-go cars are aimed at offering shoppers access to convenient and reliable transport to make the weekly shop that much easier.

Lidl says that the new GoCar service also opens up local access to low cost, contract-free pay-as-you-go vehicle rental for wider community benefit, particularly for areas where car ownership is low.

From day trips with family or friends to lightening the load of the weekly Lidl shop, to transporting bulky items bought from Lidl’s middle-aisle, zipping to meetings or simply having an extra set of wheels for a busy family, GoCar vans and cars can fit consumers lifestyles without the commitment.

In the last year, more than 6,000 Lidl customers have availed of the GoCar service at Lidl stores across Ireland, with Dublin’s East Wall, Shankill and Tallaght stores clocking the highest number of monthly trips.

Lidl Ireland partnered with GoCar in December 2022 to conduct an initial trial which saw 20 cars placed across 10 Lidl stores over a three-month period. Following the successful trial, Lidl Ireland accelerated its partnership with GoCar to deliver a fleet of 100 vehicles across 50 of its Irish stores.

With two GoCars installed at each participating Lidl store, shoppers across 20 counties can benefit from the service including Carlow, Clare, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, and Wicklow.

The strategic partnership between Ireland’s best value supermarket retailer and Ireland’s leading car sharing service, GoCar, was designed to provide Lidl shoppers with additional store services to support accessiblity.

The latest initiative complements the retailer’s existing service offering which already sees OOHPod parcel lockers in place at Lidl Ireland stores which offers shoppers the convenience of picking up their online purchases at the same time as their weekly shop. Lidl Ireland also invested €50 million into installing two reverse vending machines per store to facilitate return of containers eligible as part of the government’s Deposit Return Scheme.