Tuesday, July 14, 2015

CARTLY is connecting community store to the community people



CARTLY is bringing community stores to the same community for the

benefit of respective communities to enable source all their required

groceries at one particular store.  No doubt, one can pick up his

requirements from a number of Stores around us, but this leads to

inconvenience.  But Online shopping is mainly meant for convenience. 

One important reason for Community stores is to create a sense of

community identity and reflect their culture and flavor. They are often a

source of community pride and attraction. These community stores tend

to be located in humanly-scaled, pedestrian-oriented locations, but

doesn’t exist so in lot of cities/towns.  Though it is a critical component,

in order to ensure convenience of shopping,   Cartly   with its dedicated

app.   launching online shopping facility and enrolling community stores

on its platform improving access to all required items at one location.


In the early days of our migration to Canada from South Asia (India)

about 3 – 4 years way back we faced a very tough experience of

locating all South Asian community grocery items at one Store.  Of-

course, big chain Stores like Wallmart with high potential exists but they

do not cater and meet the requirements community wise.  Thus  with a

strong emphasis  Cartly is  registering  medium size Community Stores

on its platform  creating access to pick up all grocery items from a single

source making on line shopping a more and more convenient process

for the benefit of enjoying cultural feel.  Lot many Stores avoid

maintaining non-veg. inventories on their Stores as a major chunk of

veggies do not prefer to visit non-veg. stores to pick up their needs. 

These types of Stores are making non-veggies to find out and move

around for more than a single Stores to pick their all grocery items at

one go.  Bringing Community Stores on Cartly’s platform who maintains

non-veg inventories with high hygienic conditions in separate aisles

provides opportunities to non-veggies of the community to source all

grocery items of their baskets from a single Stores making online

shopping convenient.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

WHY ONLINE GROCERIES SHOPPING ?




Days are changing fast.   Every one in the family  now a days is busy.  Both wife

and husband are either employed or engaged in different fields to earn and to

improve their life styles and to maintain their image in the society.  Time is

running fast , technology improving day by day and every one aiming to improve

their comfort levels.



It is the need of hour to find ways to save time spent on groceries shopping

particularly  for the people who  lives far away from a grocery store, can’t find

things in their area, work  long hours, having responsibilities like aging parents, 

young kids,  don’t have a car, like when one parent goes away on business,

leaving the other with too much to handle. 


Buying and getting groceries is an important role in every family and it is an on

going requirement and one has to devote time leaving aside other important

roles and hence to think of smart ways of shopping to say bye bye to hassles of

physical shopping.


We are team of  4 Software professionals hailed from South Asia/India to Canada

about 3 years back and find it difficult to identify South Asian/Indian Grocery

Stores in the areas where we live i.e. Brampton, Missisauga, Toranto, etc.          

No information online for South Asian Grocery Stores  and faced difficulties to

find  different items in different stores. No car or own transport facility and faced

hassles to get groceries in very odd climatic conditions prevailing at Canada. 

This situation made us to think and an idea emerged to launch                                

Cartly – online  grocery shopping from favourite neighbourhood stores                 

to get groceries delivered to our door steps by clicking from our desktop or laptop

or mobile.

Made a  survey and noticed that South Asian retail grocery stores cannot afford to

maintain their own web sites  to sell their products  through on line shopping.    

They need to invest  extra  funds to implement eCommerce infrastructure

facilities  to position themselves which is an extra burden.   This in turn leads the

retail Stores to escalate the prices making products more costlier impacting  the

customers. To overcome this situation Cartly provides a chance for this segment

to possess online shopping platforms without any extra sizable financial burden.

With this advantage  regional stores have the potential to thrive in the online

shopping world and remain  strong future when online shopping takes up an even

larger portion of the industry.


Shopping online on CARTLY platform is straight-forward. Prices are clearly

marked, browse your  specific items, check the prices and add them to your lists.

Avoids walking through aisles, going back through the store to pick up something

you forgot.


Plus, if you're on a budget, you can see your subtotal increase with every single

item you add to your cart list. If you cross your budget, you can remove

something from your cart list to get you under budget thereby CARTLY helps to

get your grocery costs under control.