Flipkart Grocery expands its service to 1,800 cities across the country

Move seen helping Walmart-owned Flipkart take on rivals Amazon, Reliance's JioMart and Tata-backed BigBasket to tap grocery market which is expected to be worth $850 bn by 2025

E-commerce firm Flipkart said it has massively ramped up its grocery operations to now service consumers in 1800 cities, including Ajmer, Amritsar, Bhuj, Bokaro, Daman and Diu, Dehradun and Kanyakumari. With this expansion, Flipkart is now present in 23 states across the country taking its reach to 10,000 pin codes.

The move is expected to help Walmart-owned  Flipkart take on rivals such as Amazon, Reliance’s JioMart, Tata-backed BigBasket and SoftBank-backed Swiggy to tap the grocery market which is expected to be worth $850 billion by 2025, according to the analysts.

Consumers will now have an option to purchase high-quality value-driven grocery products