How e-commerce startups are queuing up to digitise India’s 10 million-plus kirana shops

JULY 7, 2020 THE HINDU: Meenakshi Senthamizh is a third-generation owner of New Mahalakshmi Stores in Dasanaickenpatti, a village in Salem, Tamil Nadu. When her grandfather started the shop about 60 years ago, she says, it was one of the district’s biggest shops. “Supermarkets didn’t exist back then. So, even the people from the town…