Mobile Shopping to make you ‘Appy!

Ocado on-the-go App now available for Windows 8 users

With the eagerly anticipated Windows 8 launching today, Ocado has an App-solutely fabulous online platform which will allow Windows 8 users to download and use the Ocado on-the-Go app without even having to sit at a computer, whenever the time is suitable for you.

Both touchscreen and rollerball enabled the free Ocado on-the-go App will be available for free from the Windows 8 store. The app allows you to do you grocery shop on the move and provides customers great value and accessibility 24 hours a day.

With a staggering 18.6 per cent of all Ocado checkouts now attributable to mobile devices this on-the-go app will provide customers with the best money saving offers – across Ocado’s entire 27,000-product catalogue - and basket-filling flexibility around the clock, whether price matching on thousands of Tesco products on the commute to work or finalising Christmas plans at the school gates.

The Ocado on-the-go App also offers a specially-designed interface compatible with over 30 different phone models and handsets. Upgrades, including barcode scanning and delivery slot syncing with phone calendars are also available.

Jason Gissing, co-founder of Ocado, comments:

“Ocado is proud to be innovators in the mobile app category. We are really pleased that the Ocado on-the-go app has been released in to the brand new Windows 8 store.

Ocado continues to push the boundaries in online innovation by offering users of the app the chance to pick up all of their grocery essentials whilst on the move.

Busy workers and casual mobile users alike can now find everything they need to ensure their households run smoothly; over 27,000 great value and quality products in their pocket.”

Available to customers today, find Ocado on-the-go by visiting the Android Market online or through your mobile, and the app is available from the Windows 8 Store today.