NEW DELHI : The local arm of Amazon.com Inc. is setting up brick-and-mortar ‘Digital Haats’ in Indian cities, especially around manufacturing hubs, that will offer products and services to help digitize small and medium businesses, a top executive at the online retailer said. The plan is to scale up to 100 such Haats or marketplaces by 2025, Gopal Pillai, Amazon India vice-president for seller services said in an interview on Thursday. These physical haats will provide a range of services like e-commerce on-boarding, imaging and cataloging, warehouse space, logistics, digital marketing, and compliance for small businesses and manufacturers. “We would imagine it like a food court or a store of a telecom company where you will see several booths offering different services," Pillai said. Amazon India currently works with 550,000 sellers.

Source: Mint January 23, 2020 17:48 UTC