Alcampo (E)

On time – within a few weeks, Wanzl had produced and delivered 28,000 Tango shopping trolleys to the Spanish retailer Alcampo.

Spain: summer, sun, sea.

And a high salt content in the air. This salt affects shopping trolleys made of wire. Above all, this affects stores located close to the sea or in the vicinity of desalination plants for the production of drinking water. The consequence of this is corrosion of the wire trolleys. Alcampo, the Spanish subsidiary of the French retail chain Auchan, reacted as early as 2008 with extensive tests on plastic shopping trolleys from different manufacturers. One year later, Wanzl won the tender to supply the first "Tango" delivery to the Alcampo hypermarket in Vigo, in north-west Spain, situated directly on the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, the Tango plastic shopping trolley has "tangoed" with Alcampo in Spain. In the meantime, the Tango has proven itself to Spanish retailers in terms of product quality, workmanship and a consistently good look. In 2010, there was a bulk order for a further 28,000 trolleys for 16 Alcampo hypermarkets

Within only six weeks, the delivery took place on time in several stages around the end of 2010.

Wanzl equipped the majority of the 220 litre trolleys with travelator castors for the safe transportation of goods on travelators between the levels. "We received only positive reactions from Alcampo," reported Jérôme Neyrinck, Wanzl's Key Account Manager for French customers outside France. This was indeed due to the quick and on-time production as well as the high quality of the Tango plastic shopping trolley, and there is already a prospect of supplying further Alcampo stores in 2011.