Flipkart launches doorstep grocery delivery services in Kolkata

June 24, 2021: Flipkart has launched grocery services in Kolkata, which will now provide customers in the city and neighbouring towns access to high-quality daily essentials at attractive prices while ensuring their safety through doorstep delivery.

Flipkart Grocery offers over 7,000 products across 200+ categories - ranging from daily household supplies, staples, snacks & beverages, confectionery, personal care, and much more. Flipkart’s grocery offering is backed by an intuitive user experience through voice-enabled shopping for groceries, credit offerings and open box deliveries.

With the help of Flipkart’s newly launched and dedicated grocery fulfilment centre in Kolkata, the marketplace will bring the ease of online grocery shopping to users in Kolkata as well as those in neighbouring cities of Kharagpur, Bardhaman and Medinipur through a satellite-expansion marketplace model which will service 170+ pin codes in the regions.

The Kolkata grocery fulfilment centre is spread across an area of nearly 75,000 square feet. The facility has also created over 900 direct and indirect job opportunities, leading to a boost in local employment and economy. Sustained growth in Flipkart’s grocery business also boosts the local food processing industry, resulting in massive support for Indian agriculture and small & medium farmers.

Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, minister of agriculture, West Bengal, said, “I am glad to know that Flipkart is venturing into setting up its Grocery unit at Dankuni for consumers in Kolkata and peripheral areas. It will also be of many benefits to the growers and producers of the goods. I hope the unit will cater to the need of supplying essential items maintaining the quality as per norms of respective authorities. I wish all the success to the upcoming unit.”

Smrithi Ravichandran, vice president - grocery, Flipkart, said, “Customer safety is at the centre of the Flipkart group’s efforts and in line with this, we have launched grocery service in Kolkata and nearby neighbouring towns. Flipkart has leveraged its partnership on-ground and is working with its marketplace sellers, MSMEs and brand partners, to ensure timely availability of essential products for consumers. We have also enabled contactless payments so that consumers can purchase their daily essential needs in the safety of their homes.”