A BOURNEMOUTH supermarket hopes to set up a “Click and Collect” customer centre in its car park to cater for busy customers who want to shop online but don’t want to wait in for deliveries.

Tesco in Riverside Avenue, Littledown, is applying for planning permission to build a customer collection storage pod and canopy in part of its existing car park.

In its planning application, the store giant states: “Tesco propose to offer customers a new service, where the customer orders their shopping and pays for it online, then a personal shopper at the store picks each individual customer’s shopping.

“Customers will be allocated a predetermined collection timeslot when ordering their shopping and will then collect their shopping orders from the “Click and Collect” area.

“This new service is aimed at customers who lead busy lifestyles and cannot guarantee that they will be at home to take receipt of the normal home delivery service provided by the store, or for any customer who does not have time to spend shopping at the store but still needs to source their weekly provisions.”

The application will be considered by planning officers in due course.