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Homegrown etailer Flipkart on Tuesday announced a partnership with retail store chain Vishal Mega Mart for the home delivery of essential items through a safe supply chain in 26 cities. A Vishal Mega Mart Essentials store has been created on...

The global textile and fashion industry was one of the worst hit sector by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Since its outbreak in December 2019 in China, we have seen retailers progressively closing doors as the global spread of the...

Food delivery platform Swiggy on Monday announced to lay off 1,100 employees spanning across grades and functions in the cities and head office over the next few days as COVID-19 continues to hurt its business. All impacted employees will receive...

With retail stores opening post the lifting of the lockdown, in-store technologies – which have until now have been used in various ways aggregate customer experience – can be a huge enabler in managing social measures. in a webinar...

Leading retailers have witnessed an increase in number of footfalls along with a ‘significant’ jump in average purchase value in the third phase of the lockdown. According to industry players such as Metro Cash & Carry, Lots Wholesale Solutions,...

E-commerce players on Sunday welcomed the government's decision to allow the delivery of non-essential items in the red zones across the country. The new guidelines for lockdown 4.0 announced by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) paved the way for...

The hospitality sector and restaurants have been among the worst hit due to the pandemic and the nationwide lockdown, but to their displeasure, there was nothing specific for the sectors in the mega economic package announced by Finance Minister...

Amid the COVID-19 lockdown, fashion businesses are searching for ways to continue to carry out regular business. With central and state governments expected to impose strict regulations on non-essential retail when allowing them to reopen to limit the spread...

Not so long-ago various analysts and industry experts were of the opinion that the Indian retail industry would grow to US$ 1400 billion by FY24. The e-commerce market too was estimated to grow to US$ 98 billion in FY24....

Online restaurant guide and food ordering platform Zomato on Friday said it is going to layoff around 13 per cent of its workforce on account of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. The company has around 4,000 employees in different roles. In...