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Meta partners with Reliance Jiomart to offer grocery shopping on WhatsApp

'First-ever end-to-end shopping experience' on messaging platform, says Mark Zuckerberg

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Sharleen D'SouzaSourabh Lele Mumbai/ New Delhi
Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of WhatsApp, will partner with Reliance JioMart for a service where WhatsApp users can buy groceries on the messaging platform from the Indian retail firm.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer (CEO) of Meta Platforms, said in a Facebook post, “[I am] Excited to launch our partnership with JioMart in India. This is our first-ever end-to-end shopping experience on WhatsApp--people can now buy groceries from JioMart right in a chat.”

“Business messaging is an area with real momentum and chat-based experiences like this will be the go-to way people and businesses communicate in the years

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