Littlewoods has included the option of using the Collect+ high-street drop-off services as one of the delivery options in the latest version of its retail web site. It is making no charge for leaving goods at one of the Collect+ locations.

Littlewoods is part of Shop Direct, which in turn is associated with HDN, which launched Collect+ in partnership with PayPoint. Shop Direct has already embraced the concept with enthusiasm.

Littlewoods offers free delivery as standard on most products, but offers next-day, nominated-day and Saturday deliveries for a flat fee of £6.95 in each case.

Collect+ now claims to have 3,500 outlets, and says 99 per cent of them are open seven days a week.