GooglePay looks to bring kirana store customers on its platform

BENGALURU: After peer-to-peer (P2P) and bill payments, Google Pay is looking to win over customers of smaller offline retailers or kirana stores. While Google had announced plans to partner with point-of-sale providers to onboard retail merchants, it is now piloting transactions based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to be made by consumers while making offline purchases, according to two people aware of the matter.