Flipkart Shuts It's Groceries Delivery App Nearby
A month later, Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori resignation India’s largest e-commerce firm Flipkart shuts it's groceries delivery app, Nearby. The company Nearby was five months old.
Paytm, operated by One97 Communications Ltd, also closed its grocery service in June because of poor demand.
The Nearby app was launched as an experiment by Flipkart in Bengaluru in October. The company promised to deliver fruits, vegetables, soaps and other staples from supermarkets to customers within an hour of receiving an order.
On 11 January, Flipkart named co-founder Binny as CEO, replacing Sachin Bansal, in a move that it claimed would strengthen its management bandwidth as it seeks to combat archrival Amazon India and kick off preparations for an expected initial public offering (IPO) over the...