Covid-19 outbreak: Zomato may now get liquor for you amid lockdown
Food delivery firm Zomato aims to branch
out into delivering alcohol, according to a document seen by Reuters, as it
seeks to cash in on high demand for booze during the coronavirus lockdown.
Zomato has already
diversified into grocery as the restrictions on movement shuttered some
restaurants and people hesitated to order outside food. Alcohol stores, closed
nationwide on March 25, were allowed to re-open this week, generating queues of
hundreds of people, leading to baton charges by police to enforce social distancing.
There
is no legal provision for home deliveries of alcohol in India, something that
industry body International Spirits and Wines Association of India (ISWAI) is
lobbying to change in conjunction with Zomato and others.
"We believe that a tech-enabled home-delivery based solution can promote
responsible consumption of alcohol," Mohit Gupta, Zomato's CEO for food
delivery, wrote in a business proposal to ISWAI.
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