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Printed receipts from ATM or grocery store may be toxic, says report

The most common were grocery stores, restaurants, department stores, drugstores, and gas stations, among others. They found about 80 per cent receipts had the presence of bisphenol

ONDC goes live with beta launch in Bengaluru; 161 orders placed on Day 1

Govt-owned network starts in Bengaluru with online grocery, restaurant orders

Damani's budget grocery chain DMart eyes fivefold growth in heated market

Avenue Supermarts could scale up the chain known for its knockdown prices on everything from lentils to laundry powder to 1,500 supermarkets from 284

Flipkart Grocery leans on smaller towns in bid to reach 20,000 PIN codes

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

Meesho integrates grocery with core application; rebrands Farmiso

Meesho Superstore currently provides 500 products across categories like fresh fruits, vegetables, groceries, home care, and packaged food.

Udaan eyes grocery market at $850 bn 2025, to focus on community e-commerce

India's largest business-to-business e-commerce firm launches app for entry into sector

Amazon unifies grocery stores into single online store called Amazon Fresh

The new store, available across 300 Indian cities, continues to offer customers unbeatable savings, a wide range of products, and fast and convenient delivery options

Grofers' 15-minute delivery pledge fraught with risks, say experts

Experts say delivery time frame on groceries purports to blow right past the logistics promises

Kirana comes full circle

Two recent steps, both by the original posterboy of e-commerce, Flipkart, make it clear that we've come full circle on grocery

Grocery store work linked with increased Covid-19 infection risk: Study

Grocery store employees are likely to be at increased risk of COVID-19 infection, with those in customer-facing roles five times as likely to test positive as their colleagues in other positions, a study suggests. The research, published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, also found that among those testing positive, three out of four had no symptoms, suggesting these key workers could be an important reservoir of infection. The researchers studied 104 employees of one grocery store in Boston, US in order to find out how COVID-19 has affected the health and wellbeing of essential workers. Each employee was tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 infection, in May this year as part of a mandatory testing policy across Boston. They were asked to provide information on COVID-19, including any symptoms and exposure to anyone with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 over the past 14 days. Information on mental health was gleaned from two validated questionnaires .

Two techies who use queue management systems to prevent crowding at stores

Dingg, which is awarded a grant under the government's CAWACH initiative, is growing massively as store-owners take measures to prevent over-crowding

Grocery shops, vendors potential virus spreaders: Centre calls for testing

In a letter to states and UTs, Secretary in the Health Ministry, Rajesh Bhushan also stressed the need for operationalising ambulance transport system with oxygen facility

Business 24Seven: Store chain clocks 80% rise in business in pandemic

K K Modi Group venture has seen profits grow by double digits since late March, when India went under lockdown to contain the coronavirus.

How hyper-local consumption is driving change in brand-retail landscape

With the clamour for convenience and support for local brands on the rise, consumers, kirana stores, and brands are redrawing the terms of engagement

40% Indian consumers getting supplies delivered via e-commerce, local shops

If this consumer behaviour continues, malls and traditional retailers that rely for sales primarily on store visits will have to change their models and value proposition to cater to this new model.

Covid-19: An app that connects donors, beneficiaries and grocery stores

People affected by the lockdown can call the Free Ration; which is manned by a 15-member call centre, or contact them through the app

Small retailers urge govt to allow shops to open amid Covid-19 lockdown

The members of the association sustain their livelihood by selling goods of daily needs like biscuits, soft drinks, mineral water, cigarettes, bidi, pan etc

Coronavirus fear: Centre defines grocery for states, eases rules for trucks

Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla clarified what constituted food and grocery and the exemptions during the nationwide lockdown, while easing the norms for issuing curfew passes

As riders go home amid lockdown, queue for e-grocery orders get longer

Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.

Covid-19: In essential items, e-commerce is no match to kirana stores

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.