73% of online shoppers say they have bought online for pickup at stores and other locations, and another 10% are interested, an IMRG report finds.

The vast majority, or 73%, of online shoppers in the United Kingdom have used “click-and-collect” services—the British term for buying products online for pickup in retail stores or other locations, according to a new report from U.K. e-retail association Interactive Media in Retail Group, or IMRG. The “UK Click & Collect Review 2015” also finds that a further 10% of consumers intend to use the service in the near future.

The report says 37% of consumers who identify as frequent users of the service rely on retail stores for product pickup points, beating such locations as convenience stores and gas stations (16%) and lockers (11%). It was not immediately clear what other locations those consumers preferred, nor the scope of the IMRG survey on which the findings are based. When it comes to locations other than stores where consumers would like to pick up orders, local newsstands, cited by about 22% of consumers, trumped such locations as gas stations (about 8%) and secure lockers on the consumer’s “regular route of travel” (about 7%).

The IMRG report, which combines older findings with general descriptions of click-and-collect use in the United Kingdom—and which is due to be updated in May—also finds that:

• In the United Kingdom, 10% of responding consumers have used lockers to pick up items ordered online. Of those, 90% found lockers easy to use and 84% would use them again.

• In Germany, 50% of responding consumers have used lockers to pick up items ordered online. Of those, 91% say lockers are easy to use and 85% would use them again.

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• In France, 9% of responding consumers have used lockers to pick up items ordered online. Of those, 86% found lockers easy to use and 82% would use them again.

In North America, data from the new Internet Retailer 2015 Top 500 Guide describes the increasing popularity of buying online and picking up in stores. Of the Top 500 merchants in this year’s guide, 63 offer the service, up 23.5% from 51 who reported doing so in last year’s guide. Of those retailers offering the service in this year’s guide, 51 were retail chains; that’s 32.9% of all Top 500 retail chains. In the 2014 guide, 39 retail chains, or 25.6% of all Top 500 chains, offered the service, according to data also found at Internet Retailer’s Top500Guide.com. 

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