Dukaan partners Dunzo and Shiprocket for delivery

NEW DELHI: Dukaan, a start-up that helps local stores sell their products online, on Tuesday announced a partnership with delivery platform Dunzo, and logistics firm Shiprocket to integrate delivery into the platform.

Dukaan works with 3.5 million merchants—enabling small and medium businesses and first-time internet entrepreneurs to sell their products and services online.

Pandemic-led surges in demand for home deliveries indicate a long-term trend that would become the upcoming normal in a post-pandemic world, Dukaan, backed by Matrix Partners India and Lightspeed India Partners said in a statement. This is said is increasing the need for merchants to remove supply chain barriers.