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Paytm Introduces Nearby, a Seamless Way to Find Your Nearest Paytm Merchant
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Paytm Introduces Nearby, a Seamless Way to Find Your Nearest Paytm Merchant

As part of its ongoing mission of helping India go cashless, Paytm, India’s largest mobile payments and commerce platform, today introduced the ‘Nearby’ feature on its platform. This will enable Paytm customers to get information about their nearest Paytm merchant. Paytm ‘Nearby’ will carry a directory of 800,000 of offline merchants and partners across India. In the first phase, this list is 200,000+ & will continue to grow everyday. Customers on their Paytm app or web can now browse through a list of shops & locations near them that offer services like accepting adding cash to e-wallet & upgrading accounts by doing KYC. This not only provides convenience to customers but also provides visibility to thousands of small and medium merchants by connecting them to millions of ...
Flipkart Shuts It's Groceries Delivery App Nearby
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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...