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You and Yours: Renting Gardens, Ocado Zoom, Teletext Holidays

27/05/2021

Renting Gardens, Ocado Zoom, Teletext Holidays

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Renting Gardens, Ocado Zoom, Teletext Holidays

A new website will let you rent space from another person's garden.

A new website dubbed the Airbnb for gardeners will allow people to rent space from other people's gardens.

If there’s one thing that the last year has shown - it’s the importance of the great outdoors for our health and mental wellbeing. But what to do if you can’t get your gardening fix because you don’t have a garden and you can’t get an allotment? The National Allotment Society say in some areas there is over a 300% increase in applications. Now a new website called the Airbnb for gardens is aiming to bring together would be gardeners with people with outdoor/green space.  It’s the brainchild of Conor Gallagher who launched the website at the beginning of this month aimed at making renting garden space simple and easy.

Having your groceries delivered in less than an hour could be the ultimate convenience. And lots of us are doing it. Research for You and Yours by Savvy Marketing suggests a quarter of us have ordered food and drink from a rapid delivery retailer. That's grown from only a couple of percent since before the pandemic. There are quite few businesses doing it. Snappy Shopper, Just Eat, Uber Eats, Food HUB, Deliveroo and Ocado Zoom - are the biggest ones. Ocado Zoom is offering 60 minute delivery slots, they have 10,000 products which is a lot more than its rivals offer – although at the moment they only operate in London.  George Dean Head of Ocado Zoom speaks to us about how they can deliver groceries so quickly. 

Package holiday firms Teletext Holidays have agreed to refund customers who saw their holidays cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The move comes after the competition watchdog launched an investigation into Teletext Holidays in February £7 million worth of holidays owed to its customers and demanded the money was repaid.

Presenter: Sam Fenwick
Producer: Catherine Lund

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