Amazon has resumed it's operations in India and is currently accepting orders for groceries and other essential household-items, through it's Amazon Pantry service. The service is currently available only in selected PIN codes in the cities of Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, but will hopefully be expanded to more locations around the country soon. The company also said that it is prioritizing deliveries of existing orders, while the delivery of new orders could take 7 to 10 consecutive days.
Basically, Amazon Prime Pantry is a service provided by Amazon company that enabled it's prime members, to order up to 45pounds or up to 4 cubic feet of dry goods and perishable groceries. Delivery is within a set time period but it was stopped for some reasons but now the company has started it back.
The news comes, just a few days after the company had temporarily halted it's services in India, because of the Nation-Wide prevention against the pandemic COVID-19 lockdown. Because of this, the delivery persons finding it difficult to make deliveries; because of a multitude of roadblocks and checkpoints, most E-Commerce outlets, including Amazon and Flipkart, suspended their services in the country last month for an indefinite period.
However, in an official-update earlier this week, Amazon announced that it was now fulfilling existing prepaid orders in selected PIN codes of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Chandigarh, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mohali, Mumbai, Mysuru, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Panjim, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Vijayawada, and Visakhapatnam.
With people from all around the country, stocking up on groceries and other essential items in fear of a protracted lockdown, this week Zomato has also launched its grocery delivery service in Delhi, Punjab and Kerala. Called Zomato Market, the hyperlocal grocery delivery service is eventually expected to offer both groceries and fresh products as a part of the service, but for the moment, it seems to be restricted to rice, flour, lentils, and other daily essentials.
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