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In fact, products such as surface disinfectants, clothes disinfectants and mouthwash in the past month are more in demand at neighbourhood grocery stores than detergents and toothpastes, says Ashish Kumar, Co-Founder and COO of retail tech company Near S
Illustration by Siddhant Jumde On March 22, when the country went into a lockdown, life came to a standstill. The fear of contracting the virus forced people to stay indoors and as they wondered how to replenish their grocery or other emergency needs such as medicines, delivery boys of Dunzo, Swiggy and Zomato came as godsend. They took orders and delivered in less than an hour. "I never felt so happy seeing the Dunzo delivery boy knocking on my door as I did on the very next day of the lockdown when I urgently needed some medicines," says Mumbai-based graphic designer Arati Mehta. This was t...