Flipkart has announced the strengthening of its Kirana delivery program with the on boarding of an additional one lakh kiranas in the last year, taking the total partner count to over two lakh across the country. The festive season and the Big Billion Days play an important role in scaling the entire ecosystem and due to this Flipkart will deliver every shipments in this festive season across the country.
Flipkart’s Kirana delivery program has seen massive acceptance across the country and more and more Kirana stores are expressing interest to join. As preparations for the festive season scale up, states including West Bengal (27,000+), Bihar (23,000+), Uttar Pradesh (20,000+), Maharashtra (17,000+) and Tamil Nadu (14,000+) have witnessed.
The highest on boarding of kiranas while other states including Puducherry and Jammu & Kashmir too have seen increased onboarding by Kirana partners. Hemant Badri, Senior Vice-President, Supply Chain at the Flipkart Group, said, “We are also committed to bringing prosperity for our kirana partners and their commitment towards the program has further enabled us to expand our delivery offerings to multiple products including high value items such as mobile phones, electronics and others.”
