Amazon, along with Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, on Thursday made contactless deliveries to a containment zone in Mumbai on a pilot basis.
What is aggravating the situation is that e-commerce firms are facing huge shortage of delivery personnel.
Towards the end of last week, at least three such tie-ups were announced
Company building Alexa experience to check symptoms for Covid-19 at home
Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.
Advertisers ask consumers to stay calm and keep their distance, find ways to keep the engagement going under a lockdown
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
Amazon and other e-commerce companies have been facing delays in delivery of orders after the government ordered a 21-day lockdown last week to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus
Since Wednesday, when the lockdown bega, most of Amazon India's 60 plus fulfilment centres across India were shut, and the company is still in talks with state authorities to swiftly reopen warehouses
Delivery picks up slowly, but firms struggle as staff stay away
The Delhi police issued a statement saying they were proactively engaging with e-commerce portals and were issuing passes to ensure agents were able to commute seamlessly
Enforcement of lockdown should be sensible
Bigbasket sent out a message to customers that deliveries could not be processed because of restrictions imposed by local authorities on movement of goods
To deliver only essential items such as food staples, sanitisers, medical supplies
Kid profiles can also be added which may prohibit content that is deemed unsafe for children under 12
An on-the-ground report shows how bustling complexes have emptied out
Amazon said it would invest over $350 million to raise the pays for these employees in the US and Canada by $2 an hour
Google techie tests positive for Coronavirus; Amazon, Uber India, Microsoft ask all employees to work from home if they can
While Amazon India has begun a dry-run for work from home, Flipkart has told its 10,000 odd staff at its Bellandur campus in Bengaluru to work offsite for three days as a part of a pilot project
As a precautionary measure, both companies have started sanitising their offices