As the net supply house shrunk with Flipkart, Amazon, Bigbasket and Grofers suspending or curbing operations amid the 21-day lockdown, grocery store chain Big Bazaar has entered the fray, launching doorstep supply companies in main cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Gurugram.

However, inside no time, even Big Bazaar was flooded with calls, forcing the corporate to subject a press release on Wednesday, saying that “In light of the recent announcement, we are receiving an unprecedented numbers of request for doorstep delivery. There could be delay due to the restrictions on movements”.

Owned by Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail Ltd (FRL), a part of the Future Group, Big Bazaar has additionally began doorstep supply companies in like Ranchi, Uttarakhand, Noida, Ghaziabad, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, Punjab, Haryana, Faridabad, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

According to the federal government notification on the official 21-day lockdown interval, “Shops together with ration retailers (underneath PDS), coping with meals, groceries, vegatables and fruits, dairy and milk cubicles, meat and fish, animal fodder can stay open.

Future Retail that at the moment attracts over 35 crore footfalls throughout its retail community like Big Bazaar and Foodhall, is current in additional than 400 cities with over 1,500 shops that cowl over 16 million sq. toes of retail house.

Big Bazaar is the flagship chain whereas small retailer neighborhood retail chains, EasyDay and Heritage Fresh, function nearer residence to clients.

Amazon India and Future Retail Ltd in January this 12 months introduced long-term agreements to increase the attain of Future Retail shops and shopper manufacturers via the Amazon India market.

Last 12 months, Amazon agreed to amass a 49 per cent stake in Biyani’s Future Coupons, which owns 7.3 per cent of Future Retail.