Home delivery service

At our shop we've been considering home delivery for a while, and are finding it difficult to make it stack up financially. If you've got a volunteer driver and your delivery journeys are short then it could work, but if you are paying for a delivery person and/or you may be anticipating round-trip journeys of maybe 5 miles or more then it starts to get expensive to run. The delivery charge that may be able to make also needs to be proportionate to the value of the goods being delivered, which can add further pressure: e.g. no-one is going to be too happy paying a £5 delivery charge to have £5 worth of groceries delivered. For now we have limited our delivery service to a brief trial spell in the run up to Christmas, and we provide free delivery to a few customers with limited mobility.