Amazon customers can now collect their shipments from Vodafone Stores

Amazon on Tuesday anunced its partnership with Vodafone Idea Limited in India. As a result of this partnership, Amazon will set up pick-up points in Vodafone stores for its customers. It will provide Amazon customers with a pick-up point to collect ir packs at ir nearest Vodafone store. This way, Amazon wants to lever Vodafone stores as an option to provide its customers with a pickup location to receive ir pack. Customers can select se points as a pickup location on checkout p of ir order while shopping on Amazon. Currently, Amazon customers can choose Vodafone store as a pickup point in select cities including Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderab, Pune, Jaipur, Indore and Ahmedab. Amazon said Vodafone stores were picked as pick up points based on customer density. This way, Amazon hopes to provide its customers with 'easy accessibility and convenience' Amazon said it aims to double its presence in Vodafone store network by end of 2019.

Amazon sold Rs 750 Cr worth of smartphones on Day 1 of festival sale

Amazon sale

In related news, Amazon is running Great Indian Festival sale on its platform. Amazon claims it sold smartphones worth Rs 750 crore within first 36 hours of festive sale. Amazon appears to have recorded a massive uptick in terms of number of smartphones being sold on platform during sale. ongoing is to close on October 4. Amazon said 91 per cent of ir new customers and sellers came from Tier II and Tier III towns while Amazon's large chunk of userbase came through its Hindi interface that was launched in 2018. During ongoing sale, categories such as fashion and smartphone saw majority of traction. Meanwhile, categories such as beauty and groceries saw seven times and 3.5 times growth, respectively. Agarwal was talking about response Amazon received on first day of its Great Indian Festival compared to usual business days.

Amazon partners with Indian Railways for self pick-up of parcels

Partnership with Indian Railways

Previously, Amazon anunced its partnership with Indian Railways to allow its customers to pick-up ir parcels at suburban stations in Mumbai. As a result of this initiative, Amazon customers can pick up ir shipments at select suburban railway starting with Mumbai CSMT, Dar, Thane and Kalyan.

(With PTI inputs)