A new shopping experience is coming to Limerick for the first time this month – with the “Lost Packages” pop-up store to set up in the Parkway Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n
The pop-up shop will operate from Tuesday, April 21 to Sunday, April 26.<\/p>\n
French start-up firm King Colis is planning to sell 10 tonnes of lost packages with mystery contents to shoppers in Limerick over the week.<\/p>\n
Packages are sold by weight and shoppers will have 10 minutes to select all the packages they want – but they are not allowed to open them before purchase.<\/p>\n
The packages are then weighed to find out the total price and then shoppers can unbox the surprises.<\/p>\n
Limerick marks the third Irish city where the company will open a pop-up store having already been in Cork and Dublin.<\/p>\n
Millions of online orders get lost for various reasons every year, most often due to incorrect delivery information. After customers receive a refund, such undelivered packages were previously destroyed.<\/p>\n
But since 2023, King Colis has been purchasing these lost packages and giving them a second life. They are sold on the company’s website or in pop-up stores in shopping centres across Europe.<\/p>\n
King Colis said that this way, customers can help reduce waste and leave a positive environmental footprint.<\/p>\n
CEO and co-founder Killian Denis urged people to get to Parkway Shopping Centre early.<\/p>\n
“We had a huge turnout on the first day in Cork and Dublin so I would advise people to arrive early. We’re excited to bring the pop-up store to another Irish city and we hope the people of Limerick can enjoy the excitement of the luck-dip style experience,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There are no guarantees and you never know what you\u2019ll get when you open the parcel but it\u2019s always a lot of fun for customers,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new shopping experience is coming to Limerick for the first time this month – with the “Lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-409258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}