Today, perhaps the worst kept secret in ecommerce has been officially revealed…. Marketplacer were chosen by Tesco to launch their new online marketplace, which opened on the 4th of June this year.
Marketplacer is a global technology platform that enables brands, retailers, suppliers, communities, and innovators to build and scale successful online marketplaces and range extension programmes. This relationship is enabling Tesco to extend its range of products in existing and new categories to enhance customer experience and boost revenue.
The strategic project, which commenced in June, will continue to expand, with the addition of further third-party sellers, over the months to come. Marketplacer’s platform will enable the supermarket to find and easily connect products from third party sellers at scale.
In addition to the first tranche of sellers on the Tesco marketplace, we’ve seen further sellers launch on Tesco throughout the month of July bringing the number of third party sellers to 29:
- Berkfield Home
- Clair De Lune
- Clever Stuff International
- Fine Wine Sellers
- Happy Linen Co.
- Hirix International
- INABA
- Luzern
- Olpro
- Purrform
Why Marketplacer?
Since for Tesco, customer service is at the heart of the business – in marketplace terms, its third-party suppliers are also its customers. The brand needed a solution that would deliver a great seller experience, while also offering superior customer experience.
Marketplacer was able to ensure a frictionless, secure and scalable onboarding experience for setting up new sellers or inducting their product selection on Tesco’s Marketplace and support the grocer to enter new industry sub-sectors. A broader selection enables the supermarket to meet more of its customers’ needs, keeping them returning to Tesco time and again.
Marketplacer was able to provide fast, flexible, secure and easily-scalable marketplace platform technology that aligned perfectly with its accelerated time-to-market target.
Offering a wide range of integration methods, Marketplacer ensured that the Marketplacer interface was seamless for sellers to dovetail into their existing businesses, with advanced catalogue and order management tools to make their lives easier.
We knew that we wanted to open up access to a wider range of products for Tesco customers; we could see customers were searching for products that we didn’t sell, and that we could be front of mind for. It became clear that exploring this advanced technology for industry partnerships would be advantageous for the customer experience and ensure a seamless integration experience for our seller partners.
In a dynamic shift change, this marketplace model allows us to take a more holistic approach to customers’ household needs and give us a competitive edge. We’ve benefitted from the Marketplacer team’s deep ecommerce expertise and understanding of our business in navigating some common scaling challenges to stay on the right track. Our secure and scalable marketplace proposition now looks set to attract additional sellers, therefore streamlining that onboarding process is critical for us to grow and scale.
– Peter Filcek, Marketplace Director, Tesco
Our priority is to ensure that the technology partnership with Tesco yields value and meets their objectives, both for the business and the brand. It’s a powerful platform which is easily manageable and allows for future growth.
A key shared goal is to deliver a seamless and superior browsing and buying experience for Tesco shoppers with the tools to generate the right data for marketers to make meaningful product decisions. Another is to deliver for third-party sellers’ needs in offering a scalable solution for sellers to interface with Tesco, focusing on ease and speed of adding products. Getting close to the business’ needs and aspirations has been especially beneficial for us to deliver a marketplace that works for all parties – customers, suppliers and the brand.
– Jason Wyatt, CEO and Co-Founder, Marketplacer