Owing to the increasing cut throat competition in the effervescent Indian e-commerce market, Snapdeal has reduced its delivery time under a new service. Dubbed as ‘Snapdeal Plus’, the service aims to offer customers delivery of products within two hours of placing an order.
The online marketplace plans to achieve the ambitious targets by setting up 40 fulfilment centres across 15 cities in the country to help its over 30,000 vendors. It must be noted that Snapdeal already offers same day delivery to most of the cities. Snapdeal hopes that 75 per cent of the orders will get fulfilled through this service.
Snapdeal Plus service has been launched by the company as an effort to further enable businesses especially small and medium sized businesses to sell products on the marketplace platform to over 25 million Snapdeal members across 5,000-plus towns and cities in the country. Already 1,000 sellers are a part of the Snapdeal Plus service, the company said in a statement
The service allows sellers to stock their inventory at the nearest Snapdeal Fulfilment Centre where the orders, once placed by customers, will be shipped in less than two hours.The Indian e-commerce space stirred last week when Flipkart acquired fashion e-retailer Myntra to be the stronger force in the more than $3 billion market.
Our vision is to partner with 100,000 sellers in the next 12 months and to create an ecosystem that allows businesses to sell online. The move will enable businesses especially small and medium-size businesses to sell products on the marketplace platform to over 25 million Snapdeal members across 5,000-plus towns and cities in the country.
said, Rohit Bansal, co-Founder & COO, Snapdeal.com.
Flipkart and Amazon are also focusing on fast deliveries and launching one day and same day delivery schemes to woo consumers. Snapdeal received a funding worth $133.27 million from eBay in February this year and the company is aiming $1 billion by March 2015.
Via:TOI