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Helping

Brick
& Mortar stores
set up
Online Shops

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S h o p k e e p e r : What
are you
digital giants offering me?

Amazon
Jio Mart Shops
Google Facebook
Shops Shops

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What is “See what’s in
store” ??
Google = Search Query + Offline Inventory
Vodafone

On
Products Visibility @ Map
Knowledge
panel
Offline stores will be able to list their available
products in real-time on Google’s search

Features such as ‘chat with consumers’ and ‘seek


an appointment before visiting the store’ to enforce
social distancing

Piloting in India, already running in 14 countries

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What is “Shops” ??
Businesses can feature items in their shops, advertise them to users, and communicate with
customers through the company's messaging services.

Shoppers can This enables customers to preview whether FB will face


buy from their purchases are ‘social media hits’, and tough
Facebook provides more user-generated content competition
page or emulating We c h a t . from Google
Instagra shops,
m Amazon
checkout shops & Jio-
feature Mart

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What is ??

After a successful pilot


with 5000+ stores &
The ‘Local Shops on
retailers from 100+ cities
Amazon’ programme
across India, Amazon is
“helps customers
pledging Rs.10 Crore to
discover products from
scale up the program.
local shops in their city
from the convenience of
their homes, while
helping shopkeepers With this expansion,
supplement footfalls Amazon will also
with a digital presence encourage and train
and expand beyond their retailers and
normal catchment shopkeepers who have
no prior experience.

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What is Reliance’s JioMart ?

Part of Reliance Reliance's tie up with


Industries retail WhatsApp means it
expansion plan as the gets direct access to
company looks to take WhatsApp's user base
over e-commerce of over 400 million.

Calling itself “Desh Ki Jiomart’s recently


Nayi Dukaan", JioMart launched website will
is currently selling now deliver across 200
private-label brands cities, and is strong
through neighbourhood competition to Grofers
stores & Bigbasket

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Which one to choose?
Let’s look at their pros & cons.

Targeted
While Google is the fastest way to reach customers
Jiomart is only providing essential products, and it specifically searching for your product, it might not
is suitable for kirana stores & vegetable shops . The initiate interest in the customer on its own. Runs on
tie-up with Whatsapp makes it easy to use, apart Online to offline model, with Youtube, Google maps
from the newly launched website. & more linked platforms.

Loyal customer base Virtual connectivity

Amazon is well-known to the Indian customer, and Facebook has the gamut of social media in its hands,
hence people would be more comfortable ordering and hence virtual branding plays a strong role for the
from their online platform. Micro-retailers who wish retailers to sell their products. However, greater inter-
to deliver online with more ease and lesser effort can connectivity across Instagram & Whatsapp could
start here. mean greater reach to the right audience.

Open reach

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Columbia Care allows booking Storefront has teamed up with VR
of video chatting slot where a & AR specialist Obsess to help
store representative will answer
questions & pick up items in the
Look offline retailers, fashion brands
and designers recreate their stores

out
store for customer via video through 360 degree immersive
experience powered by VR.

for
Apple made extensions to its
QuickLook feature which
more Fully virtual malls are coming up
across countries where people can
enables instant AR experiences
within browser & facilitates options shop through bots or drones.

purchase through Apple Pay

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