E-commerce giant Amazon has got a nod from the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to stock and sell local grocery produce online reports Economic Times. The e-commerce company had filed an application in February to make an investment of $500 million for the online food retailing. Amazon is also testing the segment of online groceries in the US and Australia through AmazonFresh. It delivers both perishable and non-perishable items. In India, Amazon currently has two services which deliver groceries in India, Amazon Pantry and Amazon Kirana Now: Amazon Pantry is a service which delivers household items and grocery and is present in 14 cities in the country. Pantry ships goods in a box that can hold up to 3 cubic feet (or 15kg) of products and will charge users a delivery cost of Rs 20 per box ordered. It started operations in 14 cities in India, covering Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida, Ghaziabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Vijaywada, Guntur, Chennai, Bangalore and Mysore. We checked and many of the products in case of Pantry are being sold by Cloudtail India, which is a 51:49 joint venture company between Catamaran Ventures and Amazon Asia. Kirana Now is a local grocery service launched in Bangalore in March last year, and is currently available in Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Hyderabad. It appears to have been renamed, and is being called "Amazon Now". Pantry is a little different from Kirana Now, in that Amazon will deliver Pantry items in 24 hours as opposed to 2-4 hours for Kirana Now.…
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