BENGALURU: Amazon India has set up 15 specialized fulfilment centres (FCs) to ramp up its day by day essentials and consumables trade for Amazon Now. The company, which has taken the hyperlocal delivery platform to the top four metro towns, will probably be utilising the new warehouses to fulfill demands for its two-hour specific deliveries in addition to scheduled ones on Amazon Now.
The development comes at a time when Alibaba in any case inked a $300-million investment take care of on-line grocer BigBasket recently.
Amazon Now was once launched two years back in Bengaluru as a hyperlocal platform to push the grocery trade of the corporate. These new FCs will upload a storage capacity of one,20,000 cubic feet for this trade, said Amazon VP (India customer fulfilment) Akhil Saxena. With the addition of the new 15 FCs, Amazon has a total of 56 FCs within the nation with a storage capacity of just about 13.five million cubic feet.
“We have put vital investments in development infrastructure for our more than a few companies right here and we're scaling up and making an investment in our infrastructure and delivery network for Amazon Now in order that we will increase our speed of delivery and supply a superior enjoy to consumers,” said Saxena, who heads logistics for Amazon India. Amazon had additionally constructed nine FCs to cater to huge appliances and furniture companies right here.
The development comes at a time when Alibaba in any case inked a $300-million investment take care of on-line grocer BigBasket recently.
Amazon Now was once launched two years back in Bengaluru as a hyperlocal platform to push the grocery trade of the corporate. These new FCs will upload a storage capacity of one,20,000 cubic feet for this trade, said Amazon VP (India customer fulfilment) Akhil Saxena. With the addition of the new 15 FCs, Amazon has a total of 56 FCs within the nation with a storage capacity of just about 13.five million cubic feet.
“We have put vital investments in development infrastructure for our more than a few companies right here and we're scaling up and making an investment in our infrastructure and delivery network for Amazon Now in order that we will increase our speed of delivery and supply a superior enjoy to consumers,” said Saxena, who heads logistics for Amazon India. Amazon had additionally constructed nine FCs to cater to huge appliances and furniture companies right here.
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