Flipkart to enter Indian food delivery space – report

Indian e-commerce steadfast Flipkart is acceptable to foray into the nutrient transportation segment, with the archetypal motorboat planned successful Bengaluru, according to a study by Moneycontrol.

Restaurant partners cited by the study said the Walmart-owned e-commerce institution has already started onboarding eateries crossed the city. It plans to debut arsenic aboriginal arsenic 15 August, astir India's Independence Day weekend.

According to these people, Flipkart is proposing a committee of 10%.

This is good beneath the astir 16% to 30% charged by existing nutrient transportation platforms and is aimed astatine drafting successful edifice partners.

The caller work volition beryllium built connected the government-backed unfastened web for integer commerce (ONDC).

By utilizing ONDC, Flipkart plans to trust connected the unfastened web alternatively than make its ain closed marketplace.

The institution had earlier indicated that it would trial the offering successful a aviator signifier earlier scaling it up crossed the country.

One of the cited sources has noted that Ashish Vijayvergiya, who was antecedently the main of unit to Flipkart Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, volition pb the nutrient transportation mandate.

The improvement comes soon aft Moneycontrol reported that Rapido's Ownly work has rapidly grown to much than 40,000 regular orders from astir 25,000 restaurants successful Bengaluru.

Ownly is estimated to person secured astir 7%–10% of the city's nutrient transportation marketplace wrong a fewer months.

Flipkart appears to beryllium adopting a akin low-cost attack by positioning itself arsenic a cheaper enactment for restaurants, though it is not removing commissions altogether.

The rollout is initially expected to beryllium confined to Bengaluru, with plans to determination into different cities later. Flipkart's nutrient transportation work volition beryllium offered connected its main app and done a separate, dedicated nutrient transportation application.

"Flipkart to participate Indian nutrient transportation abstraction – report" was primitively created and published by Verdict Food Service, a GlobalData owned brand.