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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...
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...
Udaan’s sale to offer discounts for SMEs, kirana shopsThis sale is aimed at benefitting lakhs of small retailers and kirana shop owners especially from Tier 2, 3 cities.
Apnaklub raises $3.5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital India’s SurgeApnaklub connects India’s retailers, such as kirana and general stores in semi-urban and rural areas, to a wide range of consumer goods and...
HUL’s app becomes sourcing point for kiranasThe country’s biggest consumer goods firm is also mapping its sales initiatives to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (...
Kirana revival a key pivot in distribution chain of FMCG, say industry executivesApart from investment in eCommerce due to surge in online shopping amid the pandemic, FMCG companies are extending support and chasing the ...
Kirana revival one of the key pivots in distribution chain of FMCG firms: Industry executivesTop industry executives said that apart from investment in ecommerce due to surge in online shopping amid the pandemic, FMCG companies are ...
Grocery retail aggregator Kirana King raises Rs 7 crore in a pre-series- A Round from RVCFKirana King started its retail aggregation operations in 2017 and has a grocery retail network of more than 200 stores in Jaipur, Rajasthan...
Why small shopkeepers are not willing to digitise their kirana stores despite attempts by FMCG cosThe multi-pronged attempts by these FMCG companies to sign up these shop owners have often hit a wall. The claims that tech-enabled solutio...
Over 7 lakh small stores may have shut shop due to lockdownIndia has about 10-12 million small retail outlets selling grocery and other FMCG products.
Kiranas in crisis, disruption tough to reverse, fears FMCGIndustry executives said small outlets are also feeling the pinch because distributors are dealing in cash and not offering 7-21 days of cr...
Why India needs to go vocal for local storesKiranas are not only the backbone of the supply chain management but also an essential part of our economy.
Metro Cash & Carry to open 5 new stores in India this year, enhance partnership with kirana storesThe whole idea is how to make a kirana store smarter in terms of usage of technology, by running business more efficiently, targeting more ...
The kirana is a technology shop tooYour neighbourhood store is changing with canny store owners realising the benefits of going digital.
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...
Metro Cash & Carry delays ecommerce plan for kiranasCurrently, a sales force of 800 people has been deployed with tablets to meet kirana owners in real-time to negotiate deals.
Here's how local Kirana stores are reinventing themselves to trump e-grocersDigital balances, computers with inventory management software, and CCTV's for monitoring purposes are a few ways in which kiranas have cha...
A sensible FDI retail policy is good for kirana stores, farmers, and consumersAs these large-format stores and ecommerce sites raise global capital and use their buying power to negotiate deals with FMCG suppliers.
- Kirana store owners may emerge as new bankers for rural India
The local grocery storekeeper has good information about the financial well being of the houses he serves and has emerged as the most viabl...
- Mom & pop happy letting a rich tenant take over
If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to the mantra of the original peshwas of retail - the mom-and-pop stores.