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  70% grocery merchants join e-commerce during festive sale: Flipkart Wholesale

  Business | October 12, 2021 21:19 IST

  "The Big Billion Days, which concluded on October 10, 2021, witnessed a 70 per cent e-commerce adoption by kiranas across the country compared to the same period last year.

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  Flipkart Wholesale brings in credit programme for kiranas, retailers to boost business

  Business | August 24, 2021 23:51 IST

  Through these new offerings, kiranas (neighbourhood mom-and-pop stores) can avail credit at zero cost through end-to-end digital onboarding in partnership with IDFC FIRST Bank and other fintech institutions, it added.

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  Neighbourhood kiranawala most preferred choice of consumers going forward

  Business | May 31, 2020 14:55 IST

  The nearest kiranawala has emerged as the most preferred choice for majority of consumers during the lockdown, a survey has shown. Majority of the consumers in India want to buy from locally sourced items going forward that reflects the trust built by kiranas during the lockdown, according to a survey and things are not going to change any time soon as India prepares to restart the economy from June 1.

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  Paytm announces dole out incentives for merchants at kirana stores

  Technology | June 20, 2019 13:31 IST

  Digital payments company Paytm announces, to push cashback from peer-to-peer UPI transactions to offline merchant payments at retail kirana stores. In a move to expand business in the country.

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  FDI in retail not a threat to kirana shops: Montek

  September 23, 2012 11:50 IST

  New Delhi, Sept 23: Allying fears that opening up of the retail sector for FDI will hurt small kirana shops, Plan Panel Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said modern retail is an expanding segment