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Flipkart Wholesale plans to triple footprint in India by serving Kiranas

E-commerce adoption by kiranas on Flipkart Wholesale doubled in Jan-June this year over last year. This is seen growing 180% in July-December 2021, over the same period last year

RIL reinvents, again

The scale of its green energy debut is stunning

Flipkart Wholesale sees 3x jump in digital adoption among kiranas

Flipkart Wholesale is also witnessing high organic adoption of e-commerce among its Best Price members

Second Covid-19 wave: METRO Cash & Carry goes online for kiranas

Mediratta said e-commerce sales have gone up 10 times since they started in April 2020.

FMCGs turn to online distribution as Covid forces kiranas to down shutters

Online as a percentage of sales for FMCG companies has touched 8-9 per cent for some firms versus 5-6 per cent a few months ago.

SoftBank Group may invest $700 mn in Flipkart after exiting firm in 2018

Techy conglomerate investing in Flipkart at a time when Reliance Industries and Tata are betting big on e-commerce as well.

Kirana partners see 30% rise in monthly delivery incomes in 2020: Flipkart

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Friday said its Kirana partners across the country registered an increase of nearly 30 per cent in their average monthly delivery incomes in 2020.

Local kirana shops embrace retail tech as Covid-19 puts focus on essentials

According to RedSeer, online grocery will grow eight times to $18 billion market size in 2024, with 40-50% growth seen in the 2021 calendar year

Amazon acquires Perpule for over Rs 107 cr to boost its tech for kiranas

Perpule provides UltraPOS is a cloud-based, mobile POS system that substantially improves the billing and checkout process at stores

India retail: A nearly $900 billion market dominated by mom-and-pop stores

India's retail landscape is changing, with global and domestic consumer and retail behemoths fighting tooth and nail to woo shoppers, as many choose large, clean supermarkets over crowded local stores

Best of BS Opinion: Kirana comes full circle, impact of PLI schemes & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

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

Too young to vote, these teens have set up app-less, contactless Kirana biz

Now with the number of Covid cases declining, Relan and team may look at other startup ideas

Online retail majors focus on sprawling small retailer base to boost reach

Small retailers are chary about integrating digitally with larger players on grounds that it will give them access to their customer bases

Udaan plans to grab 10-15% of overall B2B retail market in the next 7 years

The B2B market (excluding industrial goods) stands at $780 billion and on an annualised basis, Udaan has already clocked up $2.4 billion in gross merchandising value

Food-grocery marketplace Jumbotail completes $25 million fundraise

Tech startups including Jumbotail are poised to transform the kirana store ecosystem at an unprecedented pace and scale over the next few years

Udaan raises $280 mn from existing, new investors, valuation crosses $3 bn

The additional financing exercise takes the overall funding raised by Udaan to date to $ 1.15 billion

Myntra set for biggest fashion festive sale; to cater to 40 mn visitors

The Walmart-owned firm is geared to handle 900,000 concurrent users and 20,000 orders per minute at peak and expects to cater to over 4 million unique customers

E-commerce battle: Metro Cash & Carry offers kiranas a stepping stone

In a first, firm to take stores to tier-2, tier-3 towns as battle with Amazon, Reliance Retail intensifies

Local kiranas hop on to digital bandwagon to manage their daily business

Start-ups such as Max Wholesale, Jumbotail and ShopKirana are helping them place orders, maintain inventory, optimise delivery routes and make payments, all digitally