With Diwali and other major festivals around the corner, India’s e-commerce giants are racing to be festival-ready. Amazon and Flipkart have together created over 3.7 lakh seasonal roles while expanding fulfillment networks, micro-warehouses, and quick commerce operations, the companies announced on August 28.
Amazon has launched 12 new fulfillment centers across cities including Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Nagpur, Thane, Visakhapatnam, Hubballi, Hooghly, Hyderabad, Tiruvallur, and Krishnagiri, along with six new sort centers in Hubli, Trivandrum, Rajpura, Gorakhpur, Moradabad, and Prayagraj.
Together, these add 8.6 million cubic feet of storage. Several of these cities are seeing Amazon’s first-ever fulfillment centers, bringing inventory closer to customers and improving delivery speed.
Similarly, Flipkart is expanding across key states including Uttar Pradesh (Varanasi, Agra, Ghaziabad), Bihar (Patna), Haryana (Manesar), and Tripura (Agartala), covering 35 lakh sq. ft. and servicing over 21,000 pincodes.
Its new facilities include the 2 lakh sq. ft. Varanasi FC, generating 3,600 jobs; the 4.5 lakh sq. ft. Patna FC, serving over 1,000 pincodes and creating 1,100+ jobs; and the 140-acre Manesar Regional Distribution Center, generating 10,000 jobs. Flipkart also opened its first grocery fulfillment center in Agartala, capable of dispatching 5,000 orders daily, and additional facilities in Guwahati, Singur, and Saidham extend last-mile reach.
The Bengaluru-based firm is also scaling quick commerce. Flipkart operates nearly 400 micro-fulfillment centers and dark stores across 19 cities, powering Flipkart Minutes, which has doubled order volumes every 45 days since launch.
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Job creation
Seasonal hiring is booming. Amazon says it has created over 1.5 lakh seasonal roles across more than 400 cities, including thousands of women associates and over 2,000 persons with disabilities, covering positions such as Fulfillment and Sortation Associates, Team Leads, and Process Assistants.
“As India gets ready for the festive season, we are readying ourselves to enable sellers to serve customers across the country. The 12 new fulfilment centers and 6 new sort centers will significantly boost our ability to provide customers the fastest, safest and more reliable deliveries,” said Abhinav Singh, VP Operations India & Australia, Amazon.
Flipkart, likewise, has added more than 2.2 lakh festive jobs, focusing on women, PwDs, and first-time workforce entrants, supported by skilling programs through its Supply Chain Operations Academy (SCOA).
Flipkart also runs Suraksha wellness camps for over 6,000 warehouse associates across 21 facilities, offering blood tests and cardiac, kidney, liver, and diabetic assessments, building on last year’s support for 1.7 lakh associates and 18 lakh minutes of doctor consultations.
Hemant Badri, SVP and Head of Supply Chain, Customer Experience & Re-Commerce, Flipkart Group, said, “Our expanded infrastructure strengthens delivery speed and reliability for millions of customers, generates inclusive job opportunities at scale, and builds a future-ready supply chain powered by technology and inclusivity.”
With new facilities, micro-fulfillment centers, and tens of thousands of seasonal hires, Amazon and Flipkart are ready to serve customers across metros, Tier-2, and Tier-3 cities during their Great Indian Festival and The Big Billion Days flagship sale events respectively.
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