Zomato has already diversified into grocery as the restrictions on movement shuttered some restaurants and people hesitated to order outside food
Satvacart ensures a delivery slot every 30 minutes seeing to it that the customer gets its delivery within 60 minutes of the order getting placed
Called bharatemarket.in, the announcement comes at a time when e-tailers Amazon and Flipkart and offline player Reliance Retail are trying to woo small traders
To make iron-fisted distinctions between essential and non-essential products is poor policy making
Many seek clarity as to what constitutes non-essential retail
BigBasket CEO Hari Menon says more consumers will shop online than depending on traditional means after Covid
National e-com marketplace to be launched shortly, to be world's largest e-com portal
Reports of a possible deal surfaced Tuesday, and sources confirmed that talks were held between high-level officials of the firms.
Amazon, along with Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, on Thursday made contactless deliveries to a containment zone in Mumbai on a pilot basis.
What is aggravating the situation is that e-commerce firms are facing huge shortage of delivery personnel.
While Swiggy is likely to start delivery of the Fortune range in Lucknow and Kanpur by next week, Adani Wilmar also plans to expand the service to 13 more cities
Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.
A B2B alliance, Uber's drivers will initially help BigBasket with last-mile delivery in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Noida
Delivery picks up slowly, but firms struggle as staff stay away
DailyNinja currently caters to around 110,000 customers transacting daily and will augment the company's essentials-focused delivery service BBDaily's extensive non-milk range.
HARI MENON, co-founder and CEO of BigBasket, tells Bibhu Ranjan Mishra how the Bengaluru-based unicorn is managing such a huge demand
Menon and his four other co-founders are quite clear that the space where they operate in itself is so vast that they have hardly been able to scratch the surface
Ninjacart connects through a network of more than 200 collection centres and 1,200 warehouses across the country
Listen to the podcast to know how Reliance is all set to take on Amazon and Flipkart with its online food and grocery selling venture, JioMart
The app currently services 7,000 orders a month. Its aim is to service the same number of orders per day by June 2020, and to capture 20% of the wallet share in targeted societies in 18 months