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Ola Partners Zomato to Restart Food Delivery Service

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Do passengers in a cab care for food? India's largest ride-hailing company Ola is exploring this subject again. On Thursday, the company announced it has partnered with restaurant search and discovery service Zomato to bring cab-food integrations to both the platforms. Ola says it's an exclusive partnership with Zomato.As part of the partnership, Ola Play customers will now see a micro-app Zomato on the in-car infotainment system and be able to order food while they are still commuting. Users will also be able to read reviews of the restaurants. Similarly, customers exploring restaurants they want to visit will get an option to book an Ola cab from within the app, the companies said. There will be no food ordering system in the main Ola app, or as a website. The agreement between the two companies will also see the arrival of Ola Money, the mobile wallet service from the cab company, as a payments option on Zomato service. Payment wallets already accepted by Zomato are Free...

Smart Lockers Make Online Shopping Better, So Why Aren’t They More Popular in India?

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E-commerce has changed the way we shop, and by extension, the way we live. So perhaps we're a little spoiled when we say that the delivery experience is a real pain point. Deliveries will come home when you're in the office, or show up at the office address over the weekend, or maybe the bell will ring at 10PM and you wonder who it is, only to find out that it's the package you were waiting for all day. It's not the biggest problem in the world, but it is definitely an inconvenience.It's also not good for e-commerce companies, as pointed out earlier by Amit Sawhney of Delhi-based Smartbox, since failed deliveries mean extra spends to complete the order.Smart lockers like Amazon Locker in the US, UK, and Europe offer a solution to this problem - the package arrives at a convenient location, and you go down and pick it up whenever it suits you within a few days. You type in an OTP to get access to the locker, which ensures that no one else is going to walk off with...