Digitalmall.com launch "Click & Pay"

Click & Pay takes the chore out of grocery shopping. It`s the ideal solution for those days when there is just no time to travel or stand in a queue. This is a true Internet model: supplier to warehouse to consumer. Imagine not leaving your desk and arriving home to a freshly packed fridge and a fully stocked pantry.

"Clicknpay.net is the freshest store in our stable and South Africa`s first grocery offering," says Garin Toren, Digitalmall.com marketing director. "The site is live with a full grocery offering including a vast array of dry and tinned goods, a wide variety of fish, prepared meals, quality meat, fresh fruit and veggies, cigarettes and stationary - a first for online shopping in South Africa."

"These products will complete the picture - A fully functional online supermarket. New aisles will be added every month, including liquor, wine, beer and a dedicated kosher section soon to follow."

"Click & Pay is an online grocery store with all the services customers have come to look for from online shopping," explains Toren. "Providing same day delivery and live customer assistance - a well trained team of customer care specialists man the 0860 300 444 number all day."

Features on the site include pre made up shopping lists, bundled specials, and a live totaling shopping basket, which calculates your checkout balance as you add each new item into your trolley. This calculator in the top left-hand corner of the page adds the running total automatically. The site includes a picture of every item and ticks the item as it is selected, enabling the shopper to keep track of what`s being bought.

Another feature is the ability to save a weekly or monthly shopping list. By simply recalling the saved list or phoning the customer call center; a request for either list will save the time and effort of ordering the individual items.

"Security is foremost in our minds," says Toren. "Digitalmall.com is a member of the Digital Interactive Media Association (DIMA) and embraces the principals of protecting shoppers against credit card fraud, privacy and quality. We use the latest Microsoft electronic commerce server technology to protect customer information and will not release any information to a third party."

"Digitalmall.com has also implemented lengthy, well thought out procedures, which monitor customer habits and prevent fraudulent purchases by monitoring customer-buying patterns. Nedcor`s Fraud Protection Unit has also spent considerable time assisting us with further measures to protect our merchants."

"By being security conscious we are able to ensure that the Internet shopping experience is just as easy and secure online, as it is in the physical world," says Toren.

Orders can be placed by phoning 0860 300 444 or e-mailing the Grocer at: grocer@clicknpay.net. A R40 standard delivery charge (irrespective of the size of the order) ensures that no matter how much is bought, it will reach the customer`s doorstep on time and intact guaranteed.