{"id":26031,"date":"2020-05-25T18:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/jiomart-goes-live-to-take-on-amazon-flipkart\/"},"modified":"2020-05-25T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:45:52","slug":"jiomart-goes-live-to-take-on-amazon-flipkart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26031","title":{"rendered":"Jiomart goes live to take on Amazon, Flipkart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Over 50,000 products available at minimum 5% discount<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reliance Industries (RIL) has taken its e-commerce platform JioMart live in an attempt to take on rivals Amazon and Flipkart. Pilots were carried out in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jiomart, an online-offline model that combines the strengths of Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail, has started offering products at a minimum 5% discount to the maximum retail price on select products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFarm produce will directly be sourced from farmers that have collaborated with the brand,\u201d said the JioMart website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JioMart has started offering more than 50,000 products in the fruits and vegetables, dairy and bakery, staples, snacks and branded foods, beverages, personal care, home care and baby care categories, according to its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers can get free home delivery on no minimum-order value, with a no-questions-asked-return policy. The website asks customers for their PIN code to inform them whether they are delivering in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During RIL\u2019s annual general meeting some time back, chairman Mukesh Ambani had hinted at the company\u2019s foray into \u2018new commerce\u2019 which, he said, was a $700-billion opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe main purpose of new commerce is to completely transform the unorganised retail market, which accounts for 90% of India\u2019s retail industry. The three crore merchants and kirana shop owners, who generate direct and indirect livelihoods for over 20 crore people, form the backbone of India\u2019s commerce eco-system,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook and WhatsApp had signed a commercial agreement with Reliance Jio over JioMart so that the online venture\u2019s customers can place order through the social media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/mumbai\/jiomart-goes-live-to-take-on-amazon-flipkart\/article31666799.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50,000 products available at minimum 5% discount Reliance Industries (RIL) has taken its e-commerce platform JioMart live in an attempt to take on rivals Amazon and Flipkart. Pilots were carried out in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan. Jiomart, an online-offline model that combines the strengths of Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail, has started offering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}