E-commerce marketplace Flipkart has launched its first Grocery fulfillment center in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, in the presence of Kakani Govardhan Reddy, Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture & Cooperation, Marketing, Food Processing, Government of Andhra Pradesh and Jogi Ramesh, Hon’ble Minister for Housing, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Situated in Gannavaram in Vijayawada, this new facility will further expand Flipkart’s supply chain network and enable doorstep delivery of groceries across Andhra Pradesh. The new center will create over 1000 local direct and indirect job opportunities to thousands of local sellers, MSMEs, and small farmers in the region.
Spread over 1 lakh square feet, the new fulfillment center will cater to the grocery needs of over 400 PIN codes across Andhra Pradesh in cities and towns, including Godavari, Kakinada, Mandapeta, Palakol, Rajahmundary, Yanan and Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada as well.
Smrithi Ravichandran, Vice President, Grocery, Flipkart, said, “As seen in recent years, the Andhra Pradesh market has tremendous growth potential. The establishment of a grocery fulfillment center here will help us improve the service quality and experience for a large number of consumers from the region.
Further, this center will help us meet the growing volume of shipments of daily essentials and contributes to regional socio-economic development by creating job opportunities, supporting the growth of MSMEs, farmers and enabling greater participation of women and differently-abled employees in the workforce.”