Some 21 of Barcelona’s 39 municipal markets now offer home delivery. The latest markets to offer the service are the Galvany, Les Corts, La Guineueta and Trinitat Nova markets. The aim is to facilitate shopping for customers with mobility problems, those who can’t lift weighty items or who can’t go shopping because of opening times or distances.

The home delivery service offered by municipal markets is mostly offered by companies with social values, which aim to facilitate integration, insertion and the personal, labour and social promotion of people with psychological disabilities or who are at risk of social exclusion.

Tallers Bellvitge offers the service at 10 markets of the 21delivering to people’s homes: Clot, Sants, La Llibertat, Ninot, Sant Antoni, Sarrià, Horta, La Guineueta and La Trinitat. At the Vall d’Hebron market, service is provided by Tres Turons . At the Galvany market, Verdallar provides deliveries. At the Les Corts market service is provided by ALCIL and at the La Concepció market, TEB. At the rest of the markets offering home delivery it is the trader’s association itself which organises the service: Santa Caterina, Sagrada Família, L’Estrella, Lesseps, Felip II, Sant Gervasi and La Mercè. Running costs are covered partly by traders’ associations at each market and the Barcelona Municipal Institute of Markets (IMMB), and partly by traders and users.

Users of the service have made a very positive evaluation of the service as it enables customer who live some distance from the market to get their shopping home, as well as others with mobility problems. The social aspect of the service is also valued positively.