Flipkart partners with retail chain Vishal Mega Mart

By

Maverick Martins

Published
May 20, 2020

Walmart-owned Flipkart has partnered with retail store chain, Vishal Mega Mart for home delivery of essential items across 26 cities in the country. This will be further scaled to over 240 cities in the next four weeks.
 

With this partnership, a Vishal Mega Mart essentials store will be created on Flipkart’s platform through which consumers will be able to order products from over 365 Vishal Mega Mart stores and get them home delivered.
 
Commenting on the partnership, Kalyan Krishnamurthy CEO of Flipkart Group in a statement said: "Our teams are working relentlessly to understand the requirements of each region and forging strategic tie-ups to meet the same. As part of this, our ability to work with modern retail stores across cities will give consumers access to relevant products while enabling doorstep delivery of groceries and essentials.”

Vishal Mega Mart CEO, Gunender Kapur, added: "We are excited about working with Flipkart, now our customers can visit our over 365 stores or order essentials from Vishal easily on Flipkart and have them delivered at their doorstep, in a safe and hygienic manner.”
 
In lockdown 4.0, the government has eased some restrictions with e-commerce platforms like Flipkart, Amazon, and Snapdeal resuming full operations across the country (except containment zones).