PICK & COLLECT COMING SOON TO LONDON TUBE STATIONS NEAR YOU.

Soon you will be able to pick up your Tesco and Waitrose shopping from London Underground stations.

It follows a successful trial by Asda of click and collect services at six tube station car parks: East Finchley, Harrow and Wealdstone, High Barnet, Highgate, Stanmore and Epping.

Click and collect lets customers place orders online, which they then pick up from stations or station car parks on their way home. With the rise in smartphoness and the introduction of Wi-Fi at over 120 LU stations, it is also thought it will allow customers to make their purchases as they move around the network.

Tesco and Waitrose will install click and collect facilities at up to six stations each - Tesco will have Click and Collect services rolling out from February in the car parks at Osterley, Newbury Park, Rayners Lane, Finchley Central, Arnos Grove and Cockfosters - while InPost, who provide parcel delivery services for multiple retailers, will install lockers at three stations.

TfL is also hoping to encourage more small businesses to begin operating at stations. LOLA’s Cupcakes launched their first cart at King’s Cross St Pancras London Underground station and will be trading at a further five LU stations later this year.

Last week TfL worked with Rockflower to open the world’s first retail and vending flower kiosk at Blackfriars Underground station.

“Over 11 million journeys take place on our public transport network each day," Mike Brown MVO, Managing Director of London Underground, said.

"There is a fantastic opportunity for us to work with commercial partners to deliver products and services that our customers want, and as a result also grow revenues that we then reinvest in improving the transport network.

"The primary role of our stations must always be travel and we will never compromise that, but there is much more we can and will be doing to improve and modernise our stations to ensure they meet the wider needs of our busy customers.”

The agreements with the major retailers will secure income streams as part of a wider commercial strategy which is currently forecast to generate £3.5bn over the coming years.