Flipkart’s festive sale report card: 110 orders placed per second; 10 million shipments delivered

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Wednesday said that the first five days of its The Big Billion Days sale saw 110 orders placed every second. The company claimed 10 million shipments out of which 3.5 million deliveries were done through its kirana partners in comparison to 1 million deliveries during last year’s sale. Among other metrics disclosed by Flipkart included 1.5X number of ‘transacting’ sellers vis-à-vis last year of whom over 35 per cent had 3X more sales in comparison to the 2019 sale. Moreover, the number of crorepati and lakhpati sellers increased 1.5X and 1.7X respectively. Flipkart, however, didn’t disclose data around the total number of sellers participating, the number and amount of goods sold, the total number of customers buying goods during the sale, and more.