Pune, Oct 18: Maharashtra is on top of the shopping charts this festive season during the Amazon Great Indian Festival.
K N Srikanth, Director, Amazon India, said in a press conference on Wednesday the Maharashtra region is a very important market for Amazon India, with the city of Pune witnessing a 70 per cent Y-o-Y order surge for our Home, Kitchen, and Outdoor categories during this festive season.
Maharashtra contributes to the highest number of new customers for Amazon’s Home, Kitchen, and Outdoors market, with Pune being one of the fastest-growing cities for home, kitchen, and outdoors, he said.
As India’s most preferred, trusted, and loved marketplace, we’re excited with the remarkable response from our customers in the first few days of our month-long Amazon Great Indian Festival 2023.
With most Indians choosing to decorate, upgrade, and redo their homes during this auspicious period, customers in India will now have access to a wide selection of 1,000 color shades of interior and exterior paint delivered with convenience to their doorsteps, he said.
In Maharashtra, electric scooters and bikes are available for customers in more than 20 cities, covering over 450 pin codes.
From all the orders placed in the last three months for EV two-wheelers, 25 per cent of them were from Pune customers.
He said the state is an important market driving Amazon’s growth in India.
To support this growth, Amazon is working to build awareness amongst businesses in Maharashtra about the benefits that e-commerce offers them and will continue to work with local stores and MSMEs across the state and country, bringing new tools, technologies, innovations, and initiatives that will unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of Indian businesses.
Amazon India has invested in fulfillment infrastructure that allows customers to get quick and safe deliveries.
Convenient exchange options are available to customers for a seamless shopping experience. Of the 12 lakh sellers on Amazon.in, nearly 1.6 lakh of these sellers’ hail from Maharashtra, he said.
Amazon.in today announced the launch of a comprehensive range of interior and exterior paints featuring over 1,000 shades, along with a range of essentials that include waterproofing products, primers, enamels, painting tools, masking tapes, and drop sheet covers for home improvement needs, he added.