Flipkart doubles seller additions ahead of BigBillionDays sale next month

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Post Walmart’s acquisition of 77 per cent stake in Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant says it is seeing higher level of interest from sellers to register themselves onto its platform. According to the Bengaluru-based firm, its rate of addition of new sellers has doubled during the last six months period, in the run up to its BigBillionDays sale next month.

"We have one lakh plus registered sellers. In the last six months, we have (seen) new sellers going live on Flipkart doubling (in number)," said Nishant Gupta, Senior Director Marketplace at Flipkart. While the addition of sellers has happened across