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Over two lakh kirana stores forced to close as quick commerce thrives -Metros, home to 17 lakh stores, account for 45% of store shutdowns.

Quick commerce is passe, dark stores are going to be history. Welcome KiranaPro, the new-gen shopping giant-in-the-making that will ride on over 13 million kirana (small retail outlets) stores spread across the length and breadth of India.

Open ended doubt: Does it make sense to create a "Democratized Quick Commerce App" that connects kirana stores to quick commerce any store, stores can list themselves on app, like swiggy hotels and instead of the dark store model kirana/supermarkets

What ideas do you’ve in terms of creating a business around the Indian Kirana sector - it is a huge market but what can be done to make it better and monetise?

Starbucks in India: 1000 cr revenue with 300 stores - assuming avg sales per store in a year around 3 crores 33 lakhs Starbucks in the USA: 2.88L cr with 16,400 stores - assuming avg sales per store in a year around 17.5 crores Still a long way

We do not need dark stores, we will use our outlets such as Reliance Smart and we have tied up with kirana stores,” said a source with knowledge of the strategy. The idea is to pursue an asset-light strategy, as well as to expand those services pan-I