WhatsApp Plan to Take on Amazon, Flipkart Via JioMart, WhatsApp will become the ‘wheel’ of JioMart e-commerce platform!

WhatsApp is now all set to take on Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart through Reliance Retail’s e-commerce venture JioMart. This information was given on Wednesday during the partnership between Facebook and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). Let us tell you that Reliance has announced that Facebook has bought 9.99 percent stake in Jio Platforms Limited, which is worth Rs 43,574 crore. On the basis of this partnership, Facebook will expand in India through RIL’s Jio platform. For the company, India is the world’s second largest internet market after China with more than 480 million connected users. Reliance Retail had introduced JioMart in January this year on a pilot testing basis in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan areas of Maharashtra.

Reliance Industries says that thanks to the new partnership between Reliance Jio Platforms, Reliance Retail and WhatsApp, customers will soon be able to transact at JioMart using WhatsApp to get “easy access to their nearest kirana stores” and order products to their homes. Will be able to get more services.

It is reported that JioMart platform has already started preparations to compete with Amazon and Flipkart. The company has a number of small merchant and grocery stores catering to Indian consumers. However, its operation is yet to begin widely in the country.

Just as Reliance Jio is planning to launch JioMart to compete with Amazon and Flipkart. On the other hand, WhatsApp has made changes to its core platform for small businesses in some other markets including India. The Facebook-owned company launched a dedicated WhatsApp Business app in January 2018 to make communication easier for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Apart from this, WhatsApp Pay was also released, which would make payment easier. Although this feature is currently in testing mode. Due to this feature, users can do digital transactions from within the app. It is also important to note that WhatsApp already has 400 million or more than 40 crore users in the country.

Although despite having so many users, WhatsApp did not have any local means of earning, but now with the help of a big domestic player like Reliance, the instant messaging app is ready to emerge as a big means of earning money for Facebook. Is.