Nine collection points, all of them in places worth being.
A locker in a supermarket car park is a locker. A locker in a taproom is a reason to have a pint. Every point here is at a partner pub or a brewery taproom, which is a distribution decision and a commercial one.
Where the lockers are.
Chilled lockers exist at five of the nine. The other four take ambient goods only, because a chilled bank costs about four times what an ambient one does and needs a power supply somebody is willing to be responsible for.
- The Farmer’s Dog Asthall, Oxfordshire Two banks, chilled and ambient. Open every day the pub is Pub
- Hawkstone Taproom Cotswolds Ambient only, and a crate return that takes the whole crate Taproom
- A partner pub, Cheltenham Gloucestershire One bank, chilled, behind the bar rather than outside Pub
- A partner pub, Banbury Oxfordshire One bank, ambient, in the car park Pub
- A partner taproom, Bristol Bristol Two banks, chilled and ambient, and the busiest of the nine Taproom
- A partner pub, Birmingham West Midlands One bank, ambient. Collection until eleven Pub
- A partner taproom, Manchester Greater Manchester One bank, chilled. The furthest north a chilled locker makes sense Taproom
- A partner pub, Leeds West Yorkshire One bank, ambient Pub
- A partner taproom, London London Three banks, and still not enough of them Taproom
Locations are illustrative for this demonstration build. Alcohol collected from a locker is age-restricted and is handed over by a member of staff rather than released by a code.
Alcohol does not come out of a locker on a code
Please enjoy Hawkstone responsibly. Everything with alcohol in it is age-restricted: we will card you at checkout and the driver will card you again at the door. Where an order contains alcohol, the locker holds it and a member of staff at the pub or taproom completes the handover after checking identification. That is slower, it is the whole reason these points are staffed premises rather than car parks, and it is not negotiable.
Why a pub, and not a supermarket car park.
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A locker in a car park is a cost. A locker in a pub is a customer.
Every collection network in the country puts its points where footfall already exists and pays rent for the privilege. It works, it is dull, and the collection itself generates nothing.
A locker at a partner pub generates a visit to a pub that sells our beer, at a time of day the customer chose. Roughly a third of collections there turn into a drink, which is a better return than the locker network costs.
The collection is the excuse. The pint is the business.
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It also solves the age-verification problem properly.
An unstaffed locker cannot legally hand over alcohol, which is why almost every collection network in Britain excludes it. A staffed pub can, and does it fifty times a night anyway.
That single fact makes a pub network able to carry the one category everything else has to leave out.
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And the partner gets something real.
No rent, no revenue share, and a small amount of staff time. What the pub gets is a stream of people through the door at four in the afternoon, which is the deadest hour in the trade.
Two partners have asked for a second bank. Nobody has asked to be paid.
What a locker point involves for a partner.
| What we provide | What the pub provides | |
|---|---|---|
| The hardware | Bought, installed and maintained by us | A wall and, for chilled, a socket |
| Rent | None paid | None charged |
| Staff time | None | About four minutes a collection, mostly for alcohol handovers |
| Crate returns | Collected weekly on our vehicle | Somewhere to stack them |
| Failed collections | Returned to us after five days | A shelf for the overflow |
| What the pub gets | Footfall, at the hour it needs it | — |
When you can collect.
A parcel is held for five days and then comes back to us. Chilled orders are held for forty-eight hours and then they go in the bin, which is why chilled collection has to be booked for a day you will actually be there.
Monday to ThursdayEvery week
Friday and SaturdayEvery week
SundayEvery week
Pick a time and we will hold it for ten minutes. Find your nearest
Windows follow the partner’s opening hours, not ours. This is a demonstration build and nothing here books anything.
And the crate goes back the same way.
Six pounds a crate, refunded, at any of these nine.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
No. This is an unsolicited third-party demonstration build, not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the businesses it describes.
Public filings, published rankings and press reporting, each labelled on the page as a verified record, a founder claim or a third-party estimate.
