Flipkart Online Groceries

Controlling about a third of India's online grocery market, Bigbasket was acquired by Tata last year

Also, despite heightened competition from quick commerce players, revenue of food and grocery retailers will be higher by 38% over FY20

The programme enables the kirana partners to make limited time-based deliveries contingent on their comfort and availability and has enabled large-scale participation from women

Flipkart Grocery currently offers 7,000 products in 1,800 cities covering 10,000 PIN codes, served by 23 fulfilment centres spread over an area of 2.75 million sq ft

The pandemic has led to a sharp growth in consumer demand for e-grocery, not only in metros but also from tier 2 cities and beyond

As the e-commerce battle intensifies in India, with Reliance Retail's JioMart being the latest major entrant with a potential to disrupt the space, the next big thing is delivery of groceries online

Introduction of 'voice assistant' on grocery is helping Flipkart bring conversational commerce and aims to fast-track adoption of e-commerce by Bharat consumers

The e-commerce firm has started a pilot project in partnership with Spencers in Hyderabad to make doorstep delivery of groceries and essentials.

Founded in 2015, Ninjacart moves over 1,400 tons of fresh produce per day, having doubled its volumes in the last four months, it was stated.

Flipkart to allocate $400 million, Reliance taking 3 million merchants to the Cloud

BS ReporterHyderabad, 18 July: Gearing up for the on-line grocery sales foray, homegrown e-commerce company Flipkart would be starting pilot programmes in different cities before going for a national launch shortly. Flipkart is currently running a pilot programme in Bengaluru, just as its multi-national rival Amazon had done in February last year, to fine-tune its entry into the estimated $ 600 million on-line grocery market."We will be opening up groceries segment very very innovative way when we launch. The pilot is going on in Bangalore. We will be be launching it in a few months time. We will be doing more pilots across different cities. We will be coming out with very innovative and unique propositions that today India does not have,"Anil Goteti, head, marketplace at Flipkart said on Tuesday. In April Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said his company was keen on entering the groceries segment given the scope and size of the grocery market, around the same time when Amazon had .