Grocery Delivery

Over the last few weeks, Swiggy, Zomato, and Amazon have raised money to strengthen their e-grocery business in the country.

Multiple e-commerce companies met government officials to discuss smooth delivery of essential items.

GrabMart and GrabAssistant services will be extended to more cities across the region to provide alternative sources of income for drivers.

Forrester projects the e-retailers to grow by 5% this year in the best-case scenario, as compared to about 26% growth they enjoyed last year.

The delivery fleet of food tech companies is largely sitting idle as restaurants remain closed during the 21-day national lockdown.

Only essential services like food, grocery, and medicines among a few others are allowed to operate.

Grocery is an essential and one of the most important daily necessities for people to get during lockdown.

The Gurugram based startup is in discussions with e-grocers Grofers and BigBasket for delivering groceries.