Micro-Retail – The Supply Chain Lab

Vietnam’s Telio: accelerating ecommerce for mom-and-pop groceries

Telio is a Vietnamese ecommerce B2B startup that connects micro-retailers with brands and distributors on a centralised platform. Telio’s smartphone

Sokowatch is on the move in East Africa Sokowatch is expanding its value offering and financial services to micro-retailers. Sokowatch:

Merchandising is a key component of any retailer — irrespective of size. It is the activity of promoting goods at

There are over 150,000 spaza shops or small informal groceries in operation in South Africa. They add R120 billion ($7

India’s grocery market is worth a sizeable $400 billion. But even with rapid retail growth, kirana or mom-and-pop stores remain

India’s Gully Network provides a tech-enabled platform for small groceries or kirana stores that takes care of the entire supply

Selpal connects informal traders to suppliers with a digital distribution platform and provides dealers with a point-of-sale device — enabling

South Africa’s Nomanini provides a retail point-of-sale device — allowing informal traders to sell digital goods such as electricity and

Shopit is changing the way wholesalers and micro-retailers are doing business in South Africa’s townships. The startup is digitising informal

Reliance plans to create the world’s largest online-to-offline ecommerce platform in India called New Commerce. It will connect it’s a