BigBasket Partners With Sodexo To Offer Easy Grocery Shopping Experience

Leading online supermarket player BigBasket has entered into a partnership agreement with employee meal card company Sodexo to simplify everyday grocery shopping for Sodexo consumers. As per the partnership, BigBasket users can now use Sodexo meal card to shop for packed foods, non-alcoholic beverages on bigbasket.com, the company said this today.

Hari Menon, CEO of BigBasket said “This is a critical partnership for BigBasket and a step further in ensuring customer satisfaction and delight. In their offline avatar, Sodexo coupons formed a substantial part of customer payments towards grocery purchases on BigBasket. With them going digital, it integrates even more seamlessly with the BigBasket online platform. This is a step forward in our endeavour to make shopping convenient for our customers.”

Stephane Michelin, CEO, Sodexo Benefits and Rewards said “The partnership with BigBasket was a specific request from our consumers because they are short of time and also seek convenience for purchasing food. With this partnership, Sodexo will enable quick, hassle-free payments for the large base of 3 million daily consumers who can enjoy shopping on the go and be assured of secured transactions across web and app platforms of BigBasket.”

With a few hundred daily orders back in December 2011, BigBasket had a modest beginning. In six years, the company claimed, it has surpassed the 50,000 daily orders mark to become India’s largest online supermarket and 6th largest grocery retailer across online, offline channels.

It has also recently strengthened its B2B business by expanding to the Hotels, Restaurants, and Caterers (HoReCa) segment and partnered with a retail-technology firm SnapBizz to transform India’s kirana stores into technology-enabled modern retail stores.