Walmart’s Flipkart starts wholesale e-commerce service in India

Flipkart has launched an online wholesale service for mom-and-pop stores and other small businesses, as the Walmart-owned firm seeks to better compete with Amazon and other players in a battleground market for e-commerce.
“Flipkart Wholesale”, also available as a smartphone app, currently sells apparel in the cities of Bengaluru, Gurugram and Delhi. It plans to expand to 20 more cities and also offer groceries by the end of the year, Flipkart said in a statement.
It also hopes to list more than 200,000 products in two months and have 50 brands and 250 local manufacturers in the next few days, the company added.
Flipkart, majority-owned by Walmart Inc, bought the U.S. retail giant’s wholesale business in India in July.