Amazon India to become authorized online sales channel for Future Retail stores
Future Retail and Amazon India had entered into long-term business agreements for expanding the reach of FRL stores and consumer brands through the Amazon India marketplace. This arrangement will now build on the robust offline and online capabilities of both organizations creating significant value for customers.As part of the agreements, Amazon India will become the authorized online sales channel for FRL stores and FRL will ensure the participation of relevant FRL stores on the Amazon India marketplace, and its programs. Customers will enjoy the convenience of ordering on physical and digital channels for a wide range of food, FMCG, fashion, footwear and homeware categories in a seamless manner. FRL will list on the Amazon Prime Now program, allowing customers to get food, grocery and general merchandise delivery within two hours in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. FRL will soon list stores like Big Bazaar, and Food hall in more cities on the Amazon India marketplace.
FRL and Amazon India signed two agreements focusing on key categories:
1) Grocery and general merchandise: Focusing on groceries, general merchandise and beauty categories
2) Fashion and footwear: Focusing on fashion and apparel, footwear, jewelry, watches, luggage, travel gear, eye wear, perfumes, and related accessories, and such other categories.
FRL will augment existing store-infrastructure at its retail outlets for facilitating seamless packaging and pickup of products ordered online. FRL and Amazon India have already launched this service across 22 stores and the results have been encouraging, wider scale up is already underway. Both companies plan on rolling this out across the entire FRL store chain based on agreed timelines.
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