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Local kirana shops embrace retail tech as Covid-19 puts focus on essentials

According to RedSeer, online grocery will grow eight times to $18 billion market size in 2024, with 40-50% growth seen in the 2021 calendar year

Amazon acquires Perpule for over Rs 107 cr to boost its tech for kiranas

Perpule provides UltraPOS is a cloud-based, mobile POS system that substantially improves the billing and checkout process at stores

India retail: A nearly $900 billion market dominated by mom-and-pop stores

India's retail landscape is changing, with global and domestic consumer and retail behemoths fighting tooth and nail to woo shoppers, as many choose large, clean supermarkets over crowded local stores

Best of BS Opinion: Kirana comes full circle, impact of PLI schemes & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Kirana comes full circle

Two recent steps, both by the original posterboy of e-commerce, Flipkart, make it clear that we've come full circle on grocery

Too young to vote, these teens have set up app-less, contactless Kirana biz

Now with the number of Covid cases declining, Relan and team may look at other startup ideas

Online retail majors focus on sprawling small retailer base to boost reach

Small retailers are chary about integrating digitally with larger players on grounds that it will give them access to their customer bases

Udaan plans to grab 10-15% of overall B2B retail market in the next 7 years

The B2B market (excluding industrial goods) stands at $780 billion and on an annualised basis, Udaan has already clocked up $2.4 billion in gross merchandising value

Food-grocery marketplace Jumbotail completes $25 million fundraise

Tech startups including Jumbotail are poised to transform the kirana store ecosystem at an unprecedented pace and scale over the next few years

Udaan raises $280 mn from existing, new investors, valuation crosses $3 bn

The additional financing exercise takes the overall funding raised by Udaan to date to $ 1.15 billion

Myntra set for biggest fashion festive sale; to cater to 40 mn visitors

The Walmart-owned firm is geared to handle 900,000 concurrent users and 20,000 orders per minute at peak and expects to cater to over 4 million unique customers

E-commerce battle: Metro Cash & Carry offers kiranas a stepping stone

In a first, firm to take stores to tier-2, tier-3 towns as battle with Amazon, Reliance Retail intensifies

Local kiranas hop on to digital bandwagon to manage their daily business

Start-ups such as Max Wholesale, Jumbotail and ShopKirana are helping them place orders, maintain inventory, optimise delivery routes and make payments, all digitally

Amazon's 'I Have Space' aids local stores expand business amid pandemic

In this process, Amazon India's 'I Have Space' (IHS) programme has played a major role with over 28,000 neighbourhood and kirana stores in nearly 350 towns and cities in the country

Amazon, Flipkart woo 'kiranas' for upcoming festive season sales

These kiranas and local stores will play a crucial role to sell and safely deliver shipments to millions of customers during these sales

'Dukaan tech' start-ups help kirana stores and small traders go online

They are deploying easy-to-use platforms for SMBs, helping them go online in as little as 30 seconds

Flipkart Wholesale's first-ever festive season sale for fashion retailers

Flipkart Wholesale's 'Big Festival Month' would offer a wide range of products in categories

Flipkart onboards 13,000 kiranas in eastern region ahead of festive season

The company also said this is part of a programme to onboard 50,000 kiranas across the country to provide a faster e-commerce experience to its consumers.

Flipkart Wholesale expands to help revamp kiranas ahead of festive season

The e-commerce firm's digital B2B marketplace expands its network to 12 new cities with enabling digital commerce access to thousands of Kiranas and SMBs.

Flipkart says Big Billion Days will create 70,000 direct jobs in festivals

Flipkart is undertaking training programmes for its direct hires in various aspects of the supply chain