Amazon and Walmart couldn’t kill India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might
Mahadev Waghji Patel ran Choice Mart for nine years in an affluent neighborhood of Mumbai. His local customers relied on the store for their monthly groceries, and continued to come in even when e-commerce players like Amazon and FlipkartiFlipkartFlipkart, founded in 2007, is one of India’s oldest e-commerce companies, and is owned by Walmart.READ MORE gained popularity in the mid-2010s. Patel put food on the table and educated his kids on the income from the store.
Two months ago, Patel shut do...
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