JioMart expands to 200 cities in India as it seeks to compete with Amazon and FlipKart
4 years, 7 months ago

JioMart expands to 200 cities in India as it seeks to compete with Amazon and FlipKart

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — An online grocery business backed by Asia’s richest man is expanding to hundreds of cities across India — a move widely seen as a challenge to Amazon and Flipkart. But JioMart’s launch “is a reason for worry for Amazon and Flipkart, are not very strong in grocery,” said Satish Meena, analyst with research firm Forrester. Flipkart launched online grocery deliveries in 2017, while Amazon has been delivering fresh food in India since 2016. Bernstein and Forrester analysts say JioMart is well placed to disrupt the online grocery market because it can source supplies from Reliance’s brick-and-mortar stores.

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Amazon joins India's quick commerce race with trials for 15-minute grocery delivery
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Amazon joins India's quick commerce race with trials for 15-minute grocery delivery

The Hindu  

Amazon will begin trials for quick commerce operations in India that would see the U.S. e-commerce giant deliver grocery items in 15 minutes or less, it said on Tuesday. Quick commerce is catching up in India, with companies like Zomato's Blinkit and SoftBank-backed Swiggy's Instamart promising deliveries of goods from groceries to electronics as quickly as 10 minutes, challenging e-commerce …

Flipkart to shift base from Singapore to India as it prepares to public, IPO in next 12-15 months
1 month ago

Flipkart to shift base from Singapore to India as it prepares to public, IPO in next 12-15 months

Firstpost  

In a strategic move to align with local regulations and prepare for a listing on India’s stock exchange, Flipkart will be shifting its base from Singapore to India Walmart, which bought a majority stake in Flipkart for $16 billion in 2018, has been planning and preparing for its IPO strategy for quite some time now. Image Credit: Reuters Flipkart, India’s …

Mukesh Ambani's JioMart to enter quick commerce space in June? What we know
7 months, 1 week ago

Mukesh Ambani's JioMart to enter quick commerce space in June? What we know

Hindustan Times  

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries may enter the quick commerce space as early as next month, it was reported. Reliance Retail's JioMart could launch the service soon to take on Zomato's Blinkit, Tata Group's BigBasket, Swiggy's Instamart and Zepto, Times of India reported citing people in the know. JioMart will not adopt a dark store model for its quick commerce operations …

Flipkart opens grocery warehouse
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Flipkart opens grocery warehouse

The Hindu  

Flipkart, an e-commerce marketplace, has launched its new grocery fulfillment center in Hubli, Karnataka, furthering its commitment to offering next-day grocery deliveries to consumers. Based on local consumer insights, the new fulfillment center in Hubballi will offer a curated selection of over 6,000 products, including the State’s popular favourites such as Nandini, Naga, and Vijay, to name a few alongside …

JioMart Rolls Out ‘Craft Mela’ to Empower Indian Weaver and Artisan Community
1 year, 9 months ago

JioMart Rolls Out ‘Craft Mela’ to Empower Indian Weaver and Artisan Community

News 18  

Reliance Retail’s JioMart, one of India’s leading indigenous e-marketplaces today announced the roll-out of one of the biggest handloom and handicraft storefronts the ‘Craft Mela’. Keeping with its vision to empower local artisans and weavers to showcase ‘Made in India’ products to customers, JioMart gives prominence to India’s rich handicraft heritage by exclusively promoting them on the platform. Here’s what …

How e-com giant Flipkart is powering India’s retail growth story
2 years, 1 month ago

How e-com giant Flipkart is powering India’s retail growth story

Hindustan Times  

India is amongst the fastest-growing economies in the world today and e-commerce has acted as one of the major pillars of this growth, especially in the aftermath of the pandemic when customers across the country transitioned to online retail as the preferred platform for all kinds of purchases. As retail moved online and powered the growth of the economy, major …

Flipkart grocery business expands presence from 9 to 1,800+ towns in 1.5 years
2 years, 1 month ago

Flipkart grocery business expands presence from 9 to 1,800+ towns in 1.5 years

Hindustan Times  

One of the most important businesses for e-commerce giant Flipkart is its grocery business, which has grown from being a nine-city business to one with a presence across 1,800 towns over the past one and a half years. Over the last year and a half, the grocery wing of Flipkart has ramped up its facilities to about 23 fulfillment centers, …

JioMart and SMART Stores announce the Biggest Indian Festival with the ‘Bestival Sale’
2 years, 2 months ago

JioMart and SMART Stores announce the Biggest Indian Festival with the ‘Bestival Sale’

News 18  

Reliance Retail’s JioMart and SMART Stores today announced the roll out of the ‘Bestival Sale’, one of India’s largest omnichannel Diwali fiestas from October 14th to 24th, marking the e-marketplace’s rapid expansion into several new categories including fashion and lifestyle, consumer electronics, home and kitchen. With this huge network of physical stores, strong partner network, sourcing capability and deep insights …

As Indians expect groceries in 10 mins, delivery agents struggle
2 years, 10 months ago

As Indians expect groceries in 10 mins, delivery agents struggle

Al Jazeera  

Bengaluru, India–Lately, Shaik Salauddin’s phone has been ringing off the hook. Delivery workers from around India have been calling this founder of a gig and platform workers’ union to share their grievances – some had accidents while trying to deliver groceries within the stipulated time, a few are in trouble with the traffic police and some others need help claiming …

Flipkart expands its grocery services to Tamil Nadu and Kerala
3 years, 4 months ago

Flipkart expands its grocery services to Tamil Nadu and Kerala

Live Mint  

BENGALURU: Walmart-owned Flipkart is now expanding its grocery services in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the company said on Friday. Grocery is a regionally indexed category, and our focus has been to build local sourcing capabilities to better serve local consumer needs with the finest regional selection in addition to bringing the best quality national brands to the consumer’s doorstep,” said …

Flipkart adds grocery shops in Tamil Nadu, Kerala; creates over 1,000 jobs
3 years, 4 months ago

Flipkart adds grocery shops in Tamil Nadu, Kerala; creates over 1,000 jobs

Live Mint  

E-commerce marketplace Flipkart on Friday announced that it would be expanding it grocery services to Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Through a regional expansion-focused marketplace model, the new centre would serve more than 150 pincodes in the region, the company said As per a statement, customers in Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, and Erode in Tamil Nadu and Ernakulam in Kerala would get …

India’s e-commerce battle: Flipkart and Amazon compete for record festive sales
4 years, 2 months ago

India’s e-commerce battle: Flipkart and Amazon compete for record festive sales

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — India’s festival shopping season is underway, pitting the country’s biggest online retailers against each other in a battle to grab a larger chunk of the growing, lucrative e-commerce market. “This is the time when consumers are actually in spending mode,” he said, adding that the roughly one-month salesperiod is expected to account for 18% of …

Walmart's Flipkart Starts Wholesale E-commerce Service in India
4 years, 4 months ago

Walmart's Flipkart Starts Wholesale E-commerce Service in India

News 18  

India’s Flipkart launched an online wholesale service for mom-and-pop stores and other small businesses on Wednesday, as the Walmart-owned firm seeks to better compete with Amazon and other players in a battleground market for e-commerce. Flipkart, majority-owned by Walmart Inc, bought the U.S. retail giant’s wholesale business in India in July. Amazon.com Inc and other e-commerce players including online grocery …

Beware of Fake JioMart Websites: Reliance Retail Cautions Customers
4 years, 4 months ago

Beware of Fake JioMart Websites: Reliance Retail Cautions Customers

News 18  

Reliance announced its very own e-commerce platform back in April called JioMart, in an attempt to bring local vendors, independent hawkers and small kirana stores online. In a public service announcement, Reliance Retail is now cautioning the public against certain individuals that are duping customers by running fake JioMart websites and offering franchisee of the JioMart services. In a caution …

Walmart's Flipkart to Offer 90-minute Delivery of Groceries and Home Accessories in India
4 years, 5 months ago

Walmart's Flipkart to Offer 90-minute Delivery of Groceries and Home Accessories in India

News 18  

India's Flipkart said on Tuesday it plans to offer 90-minute deliveries for groceries and home accessories, as the Walmart-owned online retailer goes head to head with Amazon.com Inc in a key growth market for e-commerce. Flipkart said its hyperlocal service, dubbed Flipkart Quick, will also sell mobile phones and stationery items, taking it a step further than Amazon's quick-delivery service …

RIL’s JioMart to convert kirana stores into self-service stores
4 years, 5 months ago

RIL’s JioMart to convert kirana stores into self-service stores

Live Mint  

Reliance Industries in its 43rd Annual General Meeting has announced that itse-commerce portal JioMart will offer kirana stores for greater demand generation from taking the store online and leveraging the existing Jio customer base. The partnership with JioMart can potentially help kirana stores grow business and earnings," Isha Ambani said at the AGM. Isha Ambani further added, "A unique solution …

Govt rejects Flipkart's proposal for entering food retail sector, company says will re-apply
4 years, 7 months ago

Govt rejects Flipkart's proposal for entering food retail sector, company says will re-apply

Firstpost  

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has rejected Walmart-backed Flipkart’s proposal seeking approval for entry to the food retail sector citing a regulatory issue, an official said on Monday New Delhi: The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has rejected Walmart-backed Flipkart’s proposal seeking approval for entry to the food retail sector citing a regulatory …

But where are the kirana stores? JioMart launches in 200 cities without them
4 years, 7 months ago

But where are the kirana stores? JioMart launches in 200 cities without them

Deccan Chronicle  

Weeks after Mukesh Ambani signed a deal between JioMart and Facebook, the self-declared kirana store aggregator has launched its services in 200 cities, including small cities such as Bhatinda, Mysuru and Dehradun, but without taking the neighbourhood stores on board. Currently, grocery orders placed on the JioMart website are serviced by Reliance Smart and Fresh stores and Reliance Retail’s Sahakari …

Mukesh Ambani's JioMart now live across India: All about Reliance's JioMart online grocery service
4 years, 7 months ago

Mukesh Ambani's JioMart now live across India: All about Reliance's JioMart online grocery service

India TV News  

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd has launched an online grocery service, JioMart across India, after running pilot programme in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai, Thane, and Kalyan. Apart from grocery, JioMart is also offering personal care, home care and baby care products. The page notes, “We offer you the convenience of shopping everything that you need for your home – be it …

Reliance Industries launches JioMart service across cities after conducting pilot runs in Maharashtra
4 years, 7 months ago

Reliance Industries launches JioMart service across cities after conducting pilot runs in Maharashtra

Firstpost  

JioMart is an online destination for grocery shopping that it is powered by Reliance Retail’s Smart and Fresh stores Reliance Industries has expanded its JioMart service to customers across several cities, after successfully conducting a pilot across areas in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan. JioMart is an online destination for grocery shopping that it is powered by Reliance Retail’s Smart …

Amazon Takes on Zomato and Swiggy, Rolls Out Food Delivery Business in India
4 years, 7 months ago

Amazon Takes on Zomato and Swiggy, Rolls Out Food Delivery Business in India

News 18  

Amazon India on Thursday said it is launching its food delivery operations in select parts of Bengaluru, a move that will see the e-commerce giant compete against major players like Zomato and Swiggy in the country. Amazon has been testing a food delivery service in India among its employees for over six months. Amazon's entry in the food delivery space …

Covid-19 outbreak brings local shops to the forefront of e-tail sector
4 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 outbreak brings local shops to the forefront of e-tail sector

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 crisis has spurred a new wave of online and phone commerce, powered by millions of kirana stores, or local mom-and-pop shops, small merchants, cycle-riding delivery men, distributors on scooters, even farmers. As a punishing lockdown broke the back of big online retail in Indian cities, the country’s 8 million kirana stores have kept supplies going, thanks to their …

JioMart debut: What Reliance's new e-commerce venture will offer you
5 years ago

JioMart debut: What Reliance's new e-commerce venture will offer you

India TV News  

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's new e-commerce venture 'JioMart' will soon take on industry giants like Amazon and Flipkart as its retail arm, Reliance Retail, readies to make a debut. Free home delivery JioMart assures you free home delivery No minimum order value There would be no minimum order set for any value unlike other e-commerce platforms that sometimes have such a …

Reliance announces Jiomart to take on the online grocery shopping business
5 years ago

Reliance announces Jiomart to take on the online grocery shopping business

Business Standard  

Well, the website of JioMart with the tagline "India ki nayi dukaan" is a a new grocery shopping experience from Reliance Industries Limited, the country's most valued firm. Reliance Retail, on Monday began sending invites to Jio telecom users for registering on the new commerce named JioMart. At RIL’s 42nd Annual General Meeting Ambani had said that Reliance Retail aims …

Walmart to improve Flipkart's supply chain to build grocery and daily essentials space; to focus on training MSME entrepreneurs
5 years ago

Walmart to improve Flipkart's supply chain to build grocery and daily essentials space; to focus on training MSME entrepreneurs

Firstpost  

The American retailer will invest in areas that will help Flipkart, Walmart and its global supply chain, in India Walmart, which owns 77 percent of e-commerce firm Flipkart, will strengthen its investment in the supply chains of both the companies to build up the grocery and daily essentials space, which will help broaden consumer and merchant base, two officials with …

Flipkart ups ante against Amazon; to set up Rs 2,000-cr unit for food retail in India
5 years, 2 months ago

Flipkart ups ante against Amazon; to set up Rs 2,000-cr unit for food retail in India

Firstpost  

E-commerce giant Flipkart on Tuesday said it is setting up a new local entity - Flipkart Farmermart - that will focus on food retail in India, as it looks to take on arch-rival Amazon in the segment New Delhi: E-commerce giant Flipkart on Tuesday said it is setting up a new local entity - Flipkart Farmermart - that will focus …

Amazon, Flipkart find success in rural India during sales season
5 years, 3 months ago

Amazon, Flipkart find success in rural India during sales season

Live Mint  

Amazon.com Inc. and rival Walmart Inc. reported record revenue for their six-day India sales festivals as e-commerce catches on with buyers and sellers in smaller Indian towns, moving beyond the country’s urban, English-speaking population. The American competitors have been dueling in India since Walmart cut a $16 billion deal for control of local pioneer Flipkart Online Services Pvt last year. …

Flipkart onboards 27,000 kirana shops to strengthen last mile delivery
5 years, 3 months ago

Flipkart onboards 27,000 kirana shops to strengthen last mile delivery

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Walmart-owned Flipkart on Monday said it has onboarded nearly 27,000 'kirana' shops across 700 cities to strengthen its pan-India supply chain ahead of the upcoming festive season. This will further strengthen and personalise e-commerce experience for its existing 160 million customers, help deepen its reach to newer geographies and consumers and support 'kiranas' by enhancing their income, a …

Amazon plans launch of online food delivery service in India: Report
5 years, 5 months ago

Amazon plans launch of online food delivery service in India: Report

Live Mint  

Amazon.com Inc is planning a foray into the burgeoning online food delivery business in India this year, two sources aware of the development said, in a move that could raise competition in an increasingly crowded market. India's rising middle class has driven the growth of the online food delivery sector, with research firm RedSeer Consulting saying order numbers rose176% in …

Jumbotail raises fresh funds in Series B round
5 years, 6 months ago

Jumbotail raises fresh funds in Series B round

Live Mint  

Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for food and grocery products, has raised ₹90 crore in a Series B round of funding led by Heron Rock, with participation from Capria Fund, BNK Ventures, and William Jarvis, as well as existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Kalaari Capital. Jumbotail will use the fresh funds to grow its supply chain, integrate the Jumbotail …

The tiny deals behind Mukesh Ambani’s bid to take on Amazon
5 years, 9 months ago

The tiny deals behind Mukesh Ambani’s bid to take on Amazon

Live Mint  

A $2.5 billion spending spree involving more than two dozen deals provides some insight into how Mukesh Ambani is piecing together a strategy to take on Amazon.com Inc. in India. The acquisitions represent a new strategy for Ambani’s Reliance Group, whose founder -- his father Dhirubhai Ambani -- built a petrochemicals business and the world’s largest oil-refining complex from scratch. …

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