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Founder: <\/strong>Karen Cabili
\nFounded: <\/strong>September 2016
\nWebsite: <\/strong>www.dropit.shop<\/a><\/p>\n

Love shopping but hate carrying bags around with you?<\/p>\n

Dropit is the solution you probably didn’t know existed – but you’re going to wish you did now.<\/p>\n

Founded by Karen Cabili, Tech Pitch-featured<\/a> Dropit is the hands-free shopping experience that allows consumers to shop without the hassle of worrying about what to do with their bags.<\/p>\n

Cabili was inspired to start the business after indulging in a spot of retail therapy in New York in 2014. She found herself laden with bags but, having not yet perused all the shops, wanted a means to be able to continue on.<\/p>\n

Acting as a network between consumers, retailers, their partners and courier providers, Dropit allows a customer to drop unlimited bags in any of its partner stores and then have them delivered to their home, office or hotel at a time that suits for a £10-day pass.<\/p>\n

For retailers, Dropit can be used to monitor operations and analyse shopping behaviour to inform more relevant and targeted marketing campaigns and find new segments for growth and expansion.<\/p>\n

As well as raking in revenue from consumers who buy day passes, it captures business-to-business (B2B) revenue from retailers who purchase them on behalf of customers.<\/p>\n

Cabili says that the platform has been built as a “plug-and-play” solution, meaning it can be easily rolled out to most of the major shopping districts across London.<\/p>\n

More than 100 retailers have already signed up including big names like Marks & Spencer, Gap, Uniqlo, Adidas, Disney, Lululemon, Paul Smith, Hunter and London’s premier shopping institution; Liberty.<\/p>\n

At its core, Cabili wants her business to champion the old-school ‘Mr Selfridge’-style of customer service in a bid to ensure one of the world’s “oldest and most wonderful industries is around for many years to come”.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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