Alerzo Expands To Accommodate Small Business Owners Irrespective Of Location

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>Alerzo Expands To Accommodate Small Business Owners Irrespective Of Location<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Alerzo’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer&comma; Adewale Opaleye&comma; has disclosed that the B2B e-commerce firm was revving up its market presence with an ambitious expansion drive to bring the benefits of digital solutions closer to Nigerians irrespective of their locations&comma; especially micro businesses operating in the underserved rural communities&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Alerzo is a technology and services platform and all-in-one technology partner for informal retail store&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the founder&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our strong presence in the South-West and continued expansion to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">North-West<&sol;a> and Central consolidate our desire to grow in a sustainable manner and continue to serve those that are underserved&comma;’’ he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking against the backdrop of the impact of e-commerce on the national economy&comma; Opaleye stated that e-commerce players in the country were offering digital solutions that enabled informal retailers to access a vast assortment of goods and commodities with ease and faster&comma; thereby saving them lot of time&comma; energy and resources&comma; and ultimately bring down their operating cost&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;On our Alerzoshop retail app&comma; we have a vast assortment available to our customers to choose from&comma; and we offer free delivery in all the over 13 cities we’re currently operating in&period; We change the landscape for the retailers through our one delivery at a time model&comma;’’ he stated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Opaleye added that&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;&OpenCurlyQuote;for the past two years&comma; we have delivered to informal retailers at no cost&period; With our delivery services&comma; retailers save time&comma; energy&comma; and resources that they would have otherwise expended in restocking&period; These benefits have resulted in 85 per cent of our retailers reducing their two to four times a week restock trips to zero&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He noted that Alerzo was committed to alleviating the peculiar challenges which micro business owners in underserved areas go through&period; According to him&comma; some of the challenges include difficulty in accessing goods on time occasioned by dearth of infrastructure such as good road network&comma; long distance to the market and lack of adequate transportation system to move purchased goods to the stores&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;There is need for more intervention of e-commerce platforms to reach the underserved&comma; and to further boost the national gross domestic product &lpar;GDP&rpar; of which the informal retailers are critical&period; The informal retail segment makes up the micro&comma; small and medium enterprises &lpar;MSMEs&rpar; bloc which serves as the engine of economic growth contributing 50 per cent to the GDP and 80 per cent of the country’s total employment&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;B2B e-commerce platforms have significantly impacted the manufacturing&comma; distribution and retail value chains by supporting them with tech-driven digital solutions including warehousing and logistics infrastructure&comma; and fulfillment solutions&period; B2B e-commerce platforms like Alerzo have their presence in rural areas and are reaching the underserved with access to extensive catalogue of products and logistics&period; Through texts&comma; phone calls and logging on to the site where applicable&comma; customers now easily place orders and get the goods delivered swiftly without being charged for delivery&period; So&comma; unlike the deprivation of past years which micro business owners in underserved areas faced&comma; most of them today can boast of better and faster access to goods and commodities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;