Homegrown e-commerce marketplace Flipkart on Monday said it is looking to create more than 1 lakh seasonal job opportunities across its supply chain to cater to demand during the festive season
Homegrown e-commerce marketplace Flipkart on Monday said it is looking to create more than 1 lakh seasonal job opportunities across its supply chain to cater to demand during the festive season
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
Flipkart Quick will provide consumers with a handpicked assortment of more than 2,000 products in categories such as grocery, fresh, dairy and meat in the first phase
The voice assistant will enable consumers to discover and buy products easily using voice commands in multiple languages, starting with Hindi and English
Called bharatemarket.in, the announcement comes at a time when e-tailers Amazon and Flipkart and offline player Reliance Retail are trying to woo small traders
That's because, according to KSA Technopak, e-commerce firms sell gross merchandise value of only $2.5 billion. That's minuscule in the $550-billion annual sales of food and groceries in 2019-20.
The traditional trade channel that serves over 1.3 billion people, compared to some 120 million by e-commerce, has fared significantly better when it comes to availability of essential goods
Two books - one an insider account, the other a journalist's narrative - capture the journey of Flipkart and BigBasket, the first-movers in India's e-commerce story