Quick commerce becomes FMCG's biggest online sales channel in IndiaLatest data from companies including ITC Ltd, AWL Agri Business, Tata Consumer Products and Parle Products showed quick commerce accounted ...
27 May, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
B2B quick commerce startup Fairdeal raises $15 million from Bertelsmann India, othersB2B quick commerce platform Fairdeal.Market has secured $15 million in a funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments. The company ai...
26 May, 2026, 01.23 PM IST
Can Budget 2025 safeguard kirana stores from the quick commerce boom?Union Budget 2025: The rise of quick commerce platforms like Zepto and Blinkit in India is reshaping the retail landscape, especially impac...
23 Jan, 2025, 02.07 PM IST
FRAI asks govt to provide tech support for kirana stores to face quick commerce challengeThe Federation of Retailer Association of India has urged the government to offer advanced technology platforms to Kirana stores. This supp...
24 Dec, 2024, 06.05 PM IST
Kirana stores agree on a potential plan to survive the quick commerce takeoverKirana stores are feeling the heat from quick commerce, with 80% reporting lost business. To combat this, they're turning to digitalization...
18 Dec, 2024, 01.41 PM IST
Market share of Kirana stores gradually shifting to Quick Commerce: ReportKirana stores in India are losing market share to quick commerce platforms, with their share expected to drop to 88.9% by 2028. The conveni...
20 Nov, 2024, 09.11 AM IST
Mom-and-Pop Store Day: Why kiranas will survive the corporate blitzIn India, mom-and-pop stores are typically neighbourhood grocery stores. Apart from being social connectors for the local community, they a...
29 Mar, 2023, 05.16 PM IST
Metro AG restrategises with smaller stores, to focus on kiranasThe move comes even as Metro Cash & Carry is seeking to cut operating expenses in India and shifting focus to the kirana segment from the h...
16 Oct, 2020, 10.36 AM IST
Kirana King targets 7,000 stores in five yearsThe company also has its own warehouse with distribution centres.
27 Sep, 2019, 05.46 PM IST
Metro Cash & Carry partners ePayLater to digitise kirana storesThrough this app, kirana shop owners can digitally track their daily and monthly sales, manage inventory, place orders with Metro and pay d...
05 Aug, 2019, 08.19 PM IST
Metro opens first Kirana Success Centre offering digital solution to small merchantsThe centre was inaugurated by Metro Chief Operating Officer Philippe Palazzi, Asia Pacific Head Christoph Winterer and India business head ...
27 Aug, 2018, 01.47 PM IST
Nielsen, SnapBizz partner to leverage real-time data for SME retailersThe partnership will involve Nielsen collaborating with SnapBizz to capture store level data at point of sale and detailed consumer buying ...
12 Oct, 2017, 02.00 PM IST
Retail technology startup SnapBizz raises funding from Ratan TataThis is Tata's eighth investment in startups in 2016 so far. Tata, former Tata Group chairman, has invested over 20 startups so far.
15 Feb, 2016, 10.41 AM IST
Retailers like Future Group, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, Reliance adopting kirana-store model to push salesDomestic supermarket chains are changing tack to beat the mom-and-pop stores at their own game.
20 May, 2013, 10.03 AM IST
- Nokia supports more FDI in retail sector
Supporting allowing of more foreign investments in the retail sector, Nokia said entry of multi-national retailers will not sound the death...
01 Dec, 2011, 08.12 PM IST
- Vishal Retail to rope in kiranas to take on biggies
In perhaps the first major attempt by a big retailer at co-opting kiranas in the country, Vishal Retail is rolling out a mega plan to turn ...
08 Apr, 2008, 02.01 AM IST
- Mom-&-pop keeping Big Retail on toes
Modern retail is all about survival of the fittest. And who knows it better than our kiranas, who have worked out their own marketing strat...
05 May, 2007, 01.52 AM IST