No Online Shopping: Flipkart, Grofers & Big Basket Completely Shut

No Online Shopping: As the India lockdown kicks in today because of the Coronavirus pandemic, online stores are still not sure about how to procure supplies, how to deliver them to your home and what the specific guidelines for those processes are.

As of now, Flipkart and Grofers, for instance, are unavailable for business. They aren’t the only ones. While Amazon is still offering what it claims are essential items, chances are you won’t get them either.

Few Online grocery platforms are, however, working with local authorities to restart delivery in the next 24 hours.

Some Challenges have occurred before these(Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket, Grofers and others) Online Shopping giants. here is the list of factors which creates trouble in service for these Online Products selling portal

One of the primary reasons- there is no clarity on exactly what comprises “essential services” that the government insists are exempt—expect some clarity in the coming days.

India is in a first of its kind lockdown which means that more than 1.3 billion people have to stay indoors for the next 21 days, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi late yesterday.

Online and offline stores aren’t exactly sure how the supplies for essentials would come in.

And one of the biggest reasons for this is people have, arguably, done panic buying in the past few hours and days, which has put shopping websites and their delivery partners under tremendous weight to deliver the order while supplies may be restricted.

Let us look at some specific moves by shopping websites this morning, day 1 of the India lockdown to flatten the curve and curb the spread of the Coronavirus in the country.

Flipkart is completely closed for business. They say services have been temporarily suspended while promising to be back and urging everyone to stay home and stay safe. The company makes no promises on the timeline though, at this time.

Amazon said it was halting the sales of all non-essential items on its platform so that the present infrastructure can be used for processing orders which include essential items. “To serve our customers’ most urgent needs while also ensuring the safety of our employees, we are temporarily prioritizing our available fulfillment and logistics capacity to serve products that are currently critical for our customers such as Household Staples, Packaged Food, Health Care, Hygiene, Personal safety, and other high priority products. This also means that we have to temporarily stop taking orders and disable shipments for lower-priority products,” Amazon says in an official statement. Basically, you cannot splurge on a new smartphone or a TV or some such non-essential item at this time—Amazon simply will not be able to fulfill it as the country is in lockdown mode.