Noida Grocery Home Delivery

In today's scenario, Noida grocery home delivery is one of the most wanted service which every customer is looking for in NCR city. In order to attract more and more customers, every shop keeper owner is trying to offer home delivery service to its customer. In restaurant field, home delivery has become must, provided it has minimum delivery order. 

Recently several other business have started offering home delivery service in Noida.  Examples are chemist , grocery , cakes and pastries, sweets, medical test sample collection, flour, electronics items and there is a long list.  

Home delivery versus store pickup in Noida

When it comes to online shopping in grocery, many store owners are offering store pickup as well as home delivery in Noida. Some of them are offering some additional discount for those customers who opt for pickup facility. Recently I did kirana shopping from an online portal and since the store is on my way to home, I opted for pickup service as an option. When I received the order, shopkeeper gave me a small gift. To be frank I liked the idea of surprise gift and I am sure this will pull lots of customers and in long run shop keeper will definitely get loyal customers. This is what every business owner should be looking for. On the contrary there are people who are so busy that they cant even think of pickup facility hence they always opt for home delivery.

Challenges in Home delivery in grocery business in Noida 

Although many grocery stores in Noida have started offering home delivery. To recover delivery charges, some have kept the minimum delivery amount to Rs 300, Rs 500, Rs 1000 etc. There are very few owners who have not kept any minimum order cap. The only reason is that these business owners are new and they wan to establish themselves in grocery business. There are many challenges in offering home delivery to the customers.

Traffic condition

Traffic in Noida is getting worst day by day. The reason is small cars coming on the roads every year. If you see price rise of the small cars in last ten years, you will notice that there has been very small increase in the price, however buying power of a person has gone up hence in nutshell buying a car has become easy. This is the reason why traffic condition is getting bad day by day, specially metro cities.  

Driver with commercial license

For those business owners who are using four wheeler as delivery vehicle, its a challenge to get suitable driver to drive the delivery vehicle. in Noida The reason is commercial license and there are few drivers in the market who have valid commercial driving license.   

Fuel cost and maintenance of delivery vehicle 

Rising fuel cost is another factor, although many people have started using CNG driven vehicles. But in that scenario refueling the vehicle is another challenge because of long queues at gas stations. Apart from that these CNG stations are not as common as normal petrol pumps. Getting CNG filled in the vehicle adds some additional cost and this cant be ignored. 

In order to win the battle someone has to think out of the box so that business can save the cost and can offer home delivery for grocery in Noida in short span of time and with less cost. This can be achieved by leveraging technology in optimum way.

Online Grocery Shopping in Noida

E-commerce business has started showing great response in Indian market. When it comes to internet shopping, big companies see huge potential in retail segments.  Majority of retail market is occupied by daily food and grocery market. Although several big players have started online business in grocery in India and some of them have shown good results in 

metropolitan cities like Bangaluru and Mumbai. However Noida and Gurgaon are yet untouched. Why? When it comes to online grocery shopping in Noida It has been observed that several small start-ups are cropping up in this business every month in Delhi NCR.

Major Challenges in online grocery 

Lack of pull factor  

In comparison to any other online shopping store (e.g. electronics or clothing etc), grocery shopping is very monotonous. Customer is not excited enough to do the shopping because he is not expecting something new for which he will feel excited.  Let us compare grocery shopping with laptop shopping. While shopping for a laptop, my only focus is to buy laptop or may be one or two more relevant items (e.g. pen drive / external hard disk / wifi speakers ). As soon as I complete the shopping, I am curious to get the product asap because I have never seen it. However in case of grocery, buyer has to shop at least 10 to 20 items which makes the experience a bit boring. Also buyer is not getting something new for which he would be thrilled.

Level of technology awareness in customer 

Level of comfort with the technology is another key factor which creates a difference. If you do comparison of  tech savvy people between Bengaluru and Noida. You will see that Bengaluru crowd is more tech savvy as compared to customers in Noida, which means they easily adopt change due to e-commerce and switch to online shopping however noida people finds it difficult to get online.  

Low profit margins

Profit margins are low in FMCG. If you start online grocery business then you save rent of the place on the other hand you spend on logistics part for delivery. Since margins are already low hence there is nothing much to offer to the customer which can create an attraction factor for the buyer to come online for shopping.

Technology

If someone wants to beat the local kirana stores then technology has tow to show something different. An online place where customer comes and fills his cart in just 10 mins. He need not to apply his brain. Experience should be just like driving a car for a person who is driving since last 10 years. Online service provider needs to keep in mind that selling grocery online is pretty different then selling an electronic or gift  item online. Hence e-commerce solution has to be designed accordingly.

Logistics

Logistic plays key role in any online business. Customer satisfaction depends on promptness of the delivery. On one hand rising fuel cost is giving tough time to the companies. Another factor is traffic condition which is getting worst day by day in metro cities specially IT cities like Noida. Bad traffic simply means more fuel and more cost.

Competitors of online Grocery business in Noida

Local Kirana Stores

Why local grocery stores in Noida are all time favorite for many of us.

1- Because we are connected with them since long time.

2- We get superfast delivery which online business cant beat.

3- Local grocery owner knows its customer by their names which gives them a personal touch. This is missing in any online business. Imagine someone greeting you with your sir name as soon as you enter to their store. It gives you a different pleasure. which is hard to achieve for online business owner.

Supermarkets 

In last few years, supermarket stores in Noida have snatched major chunk of the customers from local grocery owners. Their marketing strategy plays vital role in getting the customers. Other factor is volume purchase. Since supermarkets have the capability of bulk purchase hence they pass on the discount to its customers that is why people get attracted to them because of low price and various offers. This is the reason you will find supermarket in almost every shopping mall in Noida.

Ration Shop in Noida

Got confused with the word Ration? We four friends visited Noida 3 years back. All of us were doing fashion designing course from a well known media college in Sector 18 noida. We were putting up in a paying guest in sector 27. The institute was very near to our place and we used to go there by walk or by taking a rickshaw. One fine day we saw a wall painted with the description of some local ration shop in Noida. One of us asked a curious question. What is Ration ??? He thought its is an English word and he does not even know about it.

Rest two of us knowingly made joke of him like a popular TV commercial that he does not even know what it is. As soon as he entered in the class he asked the teacher. Sir..!! .today we will start our studies after you explain me the meaning of the ration. On this our teacher asked gave him a hint that he is using it daily. He was looking very funny at that point of time as he got more confused as what does this word actually mean. During whole class he could not concentrate on the lecture and the wall painting made him puzzled.

Solving the Mystry : 

While coming back to our place to Noida sector27, he decided to get a rickshaw. However two of us went to library to get some books for final exams study. Finally my friend asked rickshaw puller..bhaiya ration kya hota hai and that fellow explained to him the meaning in very interesting way. Sahab jiske liye hum rickshaw chalate hain (our bread and butter).  When we reached home, my friend gave tip to the the poor guy for solving his puzzle. Indeed it was a great day for all of. We enjoyed a lot and had lots of fun.   

Discussion at home during dinner :

During the dinner on same day, our friend very proudly said that now he knows the meaning of ration and he narrated whole story how he came to know about it. Then he described to us that its noting but grocery shops in Noida.

Now after long time when ever we guys meet or talk we always remember that funny Noida ration shop incidence which kept our friend puzzled for long time. Sometimes old stories and great incidences keeps us connected. 

Parchuni Wala in Noida

Hi Freinds, I have recently shifted to noida from a very small city in Uttar Pradesh. In UP we get daily kitchen use items from parchuni shop. When I cam to Noida few days back, one of my roommate asked me to get the kitchen items from grocery shops. The word grocery is totally new to me because I am hearing it for the first time. In my own city we call this as parchuni shop. In some cities these shops are also called as Kirana shops or ration ki dukan.

I am glad that I have added a new word grocery to my dictionary. This will help me.
I also noticed that grocery shops in noida are big as compared to those in small cities. They have all the items of daily use and that too of different variety. Some people have opened it in a very well and structured manner and they also offer a basket at the entry which helps to do the shopping. Prices are reasonable. Some of the items are available at MRP and on some items they are offering discount.

Its good to find all the commodities under one roof where you do not need to do struggle to find the stuff. Their staff people are also very very helping in nature and they help us in finding the item which we are looking for. Some of the grocery stores have also kept fresh vegetables and fruits to sell.

Noida Grocery Stores in Sector 63

Hey people...My name is Avadh Kishore Pandey and I am looking for grocery store shops in Noida sector 63. I have recently joined an IT company here and basically I am from Patna. I was born and brought up in Patna and never been to any metro in my entire life. This is my first visit to metro city. Today I went to nearby shopping mall but could not find grocery store over there.  If anyone can help me and send me name and location of the local kirana shops then it would be of great help. I want to place orders for kitchen stuff of daily use e.g daal, aata, ghee, rice etc. 

My first visit to a metro city 

Here I would like to share more about myself. I am 28 years old and I have completed my bachelors degree in engineering, to be specific in Computer Science. Right from my childhood I always wanted to visit a metro city particularly Delhi or Mumbai. I am fortunate enough that I got a job in an IT company and got placed here in Noida.

Initially I was putting up in companies guest house hence I did not find any trouble in daily dining. There is no doubt that Noida is a well planned and structured city and you can find all the facilities over here. But sometimes it gets little difficult to get small small stuff of daily use. may be I am facing this issues because I am new to the place. Once I come back from daily work it gets difficult for me to manage everything on my own. Here in Noida sector 63 and its nearby area there are many corporate companies and residential societies. This could be the reason that this place is little expensive. This could also be the reason of small problems for example locating the grocery shops, washer man, press wala etc.

Getting grocery during the weekend

I have prepared a comprehensive list with the help of my elder sister and mother. I called them yesterday and asked them to help me in preparing the list. I am also planning to hire a cook for breakfast and dinner. Till that time I will get all the grocery items I get lunch in my office hence no worry about lunch. I am planning to go to some supermarket during the weekend and get the daily grocery need items. Meanwhile I am also planning to discuss this with my office colleagues if they can help me finding kirana stores in Noida sector 63 or some nearby area.  I also did some research on search engine but could not find any good grocery store 63 area where I can go and do the shopping. Although all of us love to do shopping but when it comes to grocery shopping we all hate it, because its a quite monotonous job.  My landlord told me that he will help me to find ration stores in Noida.

I think it will take me a month or two to settle up in the new place and then I can plan for other things like visiting various places and meeting my friends. Some of my relatives have started calling me up that I should go and visit them. I am also curious to meet them. 

Noida Grocery Store at Sector 25

There are many local grocery store in Noida sector 25.  Below is the list of some of the known Kirana stores.

1 - Home Buddy - The Grocery Store - Jal Vayu Shopping Complex

2-  Singhal Kirana Store - Sector - 25

3 - Madan Grocery Store - Jalvayu Vihar Sector 25

Pin code of noida sector 25 is 201301 

Noida Sector 25 is very near to Atta Market and also famous for Jalvayu Vihar. The nearest mall to sector 25 is spice mall. This mall has Haldiram as major crowd puller. Kailash hospital is also one of the landmark which is located at sector 27 noida.

Noida Grocery Stores

Today I am going to discuss one of the basic necessity of all of us and that is our daily grocery need. Although I have lived in other cities in the past also, but in Noida local kirana stores are less as compared to other cities. Noida has evolved as one of the biggest IT city in India. After Bangalore and Gurgaon, Noida has got many IT companies and corporate offices.  I have been staying in Noida since last five years. There are many sectors which are still evolving like sectors on Noida expressway.  Some of the sectors are very well developed and crowded (for example - sector 63, Sector 27, Sector 18) In small cities you will find these Kirana stores in every street or sometimes in one street you will find two to three grocery shops. However in Noida this is not the case. Sometimes you will have tough time to find a local grocery or ration shop in your nearby area. This even becomes more difficult for those people who are working couple and they do not have time to do grocery shopping during week days.

Online Grocery Shops a boon in Noida

Thanks to online grocery shops which has bridged the gap between buyer and seller. Online grocery shops have given flexibility to the customers so that they can order any time and select delivery time

from given time slots. I have been using online grocery shopping since last six months and trust me, this has made my life extremely easy and comfortable. Now I do not need to wait in long queue on weekends and waste my time over there. I just place the order in quick 10 to 15 minutes and its done. So easy...isn't it?

When I look back at eCommerce tradition, I have noticed that in India people have now started using real power of eCommerce and internet. Be it banking, payment of utility bills, shopping, fashion etc etc..we are saving lots of efforts and money. Thanks to the technology that we are now able to give time to our family, parents and friends.

Variety issue in local grocery shops

Some of the old grocery shop owners have enhanced their business by providing more variety in their stores. They want to compete with supermarkets. When it comes to grocery, prime factor of satisfaction is variety. If you get all the needed products under one roof, nothing like that. I remember an incidence when I was looking for cinnamon powder and it took me nearly three month to just get the powder. I visited so many kirana shops in my area but no one had it. Some of the store keepers did not even know what it is? Finally on multiple requests and followups, one of the shop keeper helped me in getting a small bottle.  

Grocery shops versus mini stores

In Noida, some of the grocery shop owners have converted their shops in mini stores. These stores are just like mini supermarket where you will have three to four aisles. 

For convenience of the customers, baskets or small carts can also be used in these stores. Many such stores are opened in small market of apartment societies. Some have opened these stores in basements of builder floor apartments. The main advantage of  these mini stores is that these stores are located just walking distance from our flats. Sometimes while coming back from work you hop in to these stores, do the shopping and make the payment. Their delivery boy deliver the stuff at your place in next one hour. Some of the stores also offer discount on bulk shopping. One of the store in my nearby area launches lucrative promotional offer every month. This keeps the customers excited and make them loyal.