After listing 50k kiranas, Flipkart to hire 70k delivery executives, packers, sorters this festive season

Walmart-owned Flipkart has said that its biggest annual sale event The Big Billion Days will help create more than “70,000 direct and lakhs of indirect seasonal jobs.” The direct jobs will come up in areas including the company’s supply chain involving delivery executives, pickers, packers and sorters while the indirect jobs will be created at Flipkart’s seller partner locations and kiranas. “This will be further supplemented by job creation in ancillary industries including vendor locations, and freight partners,” Flipkart said in a statement on Tuesday. Amazon’s arch-rival Flipkart had last week announced onboarding over 50,000 kiranas ahead of the sale event that would create “thousands of seasonal jobs” to deliver customer orders.