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Home-grown e-grocer Grofers is the latest online player to receive permission from the government to open fully-owned brick-and-mortar stores for selling food products. American major Amazon was the first e-commerce company to get an approval for setting up food retail stores in the country earlier this month.
Bigbasket, which had put in a similar request with the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) around the same time last year, is also expected to receive an approval under the food retail policy soon, a senior government official said.
In its January application to DIPP, Amazon had proposed to invest $515 million in
