Flipkart to now deliver essentials from Vishal Mega Mart at your doorstep in these 26 cities
Homegrown e-commerce platform Flipkart has joined hands with retail grocery chain Vishal Mega Mart to deliver essentials at your doorstep as the country remains in a lockdown due to coronavirus. Flipkart will deliver essentials such as atta, dal, oil, among others from Vishal Mega Mart in 26 cities. The company has created a Vishal Mega Mart Essentials store on its platform, Flipkart announced in a statement on Tuesday. Via this collaboration, Flipkart will be able to serve customers from over 365 Vishal Mega Mart stores as the government has allowed e-commerce companies to ply in all zones (green, orange and red) except containment zones.
The 26 cities where Flipkart will be able to deliver products from the retail chain are: Bengaluru, Noida, Faridabad, Patna, Goa, Guwahati, Amritsar, Lucknow, Kanpur, Aligarh, Dehradun, Jalandhar, Jaipur, Bareilly, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, NCR -Delhi, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Raipur, Bilaspur and Bhubaneswar. “Now our customers can visit 365 stores or order essentials from Vishal easily on Flipkart and have them delivered at their doorstep, in a safe and hygienic manner,” Gunender Kapur, CEO and MD at Vishal Mega Mart, said. Flipkart and Vishal Mega Mart look to scale up the operations to over 240 cities in a month’s time.