🚨 Delivery of essential items such as food, groceries and medical supplies has been disrupted even after state governments exempted e-commerce services from the ongoing lockdown tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/… @AditiS90 @Alnoor_ET
Flipkart has now stopped taking any orders till there is clarity from local authorities while BigBasket has stopped accepting orders in Gurugram and Mumbai till further notice. Amazon has removed all non-essential items from its India marketplace tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/… 
E-commerce companies are also facing a manpower shortage as delivery personnel are refusing to show up at work amid the virus outbreak with absenteeism as high as 75-80% among delivery partners, warehousing staff and call centre execs tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/…
The availability of essential goods is also deteriorating across online and offline channels, according to a @LocalCircles survey tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/…
Milk delivery startup @HelloMilkbasket said it could not deliver a single order in Hyderabad while it was able to fulfill only ~40% orders in Gurgaon and Noida
The crackdown on staffers of ecomm firms and curbs on the movement of pharma, dairy products created a huge supply disruptions for consumers and even businesses deemed essential tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate…
Swiggy has temporarily shut Scootsy & SuprDaily in Mumbai while Zomato said its delivery partners were facing issues across cities while trying to deliver food. Both are operating with very few restaurants on their platforms tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/…
Online pharmacies reported that supply of medicines was not yet under pressure as they largely work with local chemists to pick up orders. However, their logistics staff faced issues from local police tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/…
🚨🚨 @Flipkart is gearing up to restart its grocery delivery service Supermart within the next few hours after temporarily suspending all its services to customers on Wednesday morning buff.ly/2QJvrzS @Alnoor_ET
@Flipkart @Alnoor_ET Home healthcare service providers and biotech companies are seeking special permission to solve logistics issues as they report incidents of staff involved in essential medical equipment delivery “being beaten up” @ayanpramanikET tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate…
