X5 has closed its merchandise delivery service from abroad

4Partners support told the publication that the platform stopped working several months ago. 5Post commercial director Kirill Khalipovsky confirmed that the 5post.market project has been temporarily suspended, but did not specify when the service could return to work.

X5 launched 5post.market in March 2024. The service offered delivery of dietary supplements, clothing, shoes, perfumes, household appliances and cosmetics from foreign stores. In particular, on the platform it was possible to buy products from Zara, H&M, New Balance and Calvin Klein. Orders were placed through 5Post parcel terminals in the Perekrestok and Pyaterochka chain stores.

4Partners specialists did most of the work on purchasing and delivering foreign products, and 5Post delivered the products to the final consumer at the delivery points, 4Partners commercial director Denis Alyabushev told the publication.

X5 Group launched its own logistics company 5Post in 2018. At the end of the third quarter of 2024, the number of 5Post parcel terminals and delivery points reached around 22 thousand, Shopper notes. According to X5 reports, in the nine months of 2024, the number of 5Post orders increased by 75% year-on-year, to 33 million. According to Rusprofile, the service’s revenue for 2023 amounted to 3.7 billion rubles, which is 48%. more than in 2022.

Experts interviewed by Shopper’s considered that X5’s entry into the foreign purchasing market came too late compared to SDEK and Ozon. “The competitive race was won by players who launched and started promoting their services before everyone else,” said Data Insight analyst Sergei Semko.

Earlier it became known about Ozon’s plans to create its own customs broker for more efficient import of goods from China through its own warehouse on the territory of the Kanikurgan terminal in the Amur region, on the border with China. Wildberries: plans to build a warehouse with an area of ​​120 thousand square meters in the same region. metro.