Flipkart, Spencers Retail join hands for doorstep delivery in Hyderabad

E-tailer Flipkart announced a pilot project with Spencers, retail chain store, to introduce hyperlocal deliveries of groceries and essentials, in Hyderabad, amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The partnership will leverage synergies between the companies to help enable deliveries of essential products to consumers.

Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Group CEO of Flipkart has said, “We are pleased to launch this pilot with Spencers Retail to collaborate and meet the needs of consumers who are contributing to the fight against COVID-19 by staying at home.”

“We’ve built a robust tech-backed platform to offer consumers real-time insights of essentials available in their area and will ensure timely doorstep deliveries,” he added.

Under this pilot project, consumers will be able to order groceries and essentials from the Spencers store on Flipkart app.

The orders will then be collected from chosen stores across Hyderabad by Flipkart executives and delivered to the customer’s doorstep, the e-tailer said in a statement.

“In this tough environment, Spencers’ partnership with Flipkart provides another platform to a larger set of consumers to seamlessly access our range of essentials who may want to use other reputed platforms/marketplaces apart from our own Spencers App to buy during the lockdown,” explained Devendra Chawla, MD and CEO of Spencers Retail.