LuLu Partnership brings grocery to Amazon UAE

amazon Announce In a press release on Friday (November 23), it has partnered with the Abu Dhabi-based Lulu Group This will see the two companies partner to offer online grocery shopping in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Over the next few weeks, new grocery products will be available to customers in the UAE through LuLu storefronts amazon.comaccording to the release.

LuLu is one of the largest retail chains in the Middle East, operating a chain of supermarkets, hypermarkets and shopping centers in the UAE.

“Driven by our customer obsession, innovation and long-term thinking, we are proud to work alongside LuLu Group, which also places customer centricity at the heart of its business,” Ronaldo MuchavaVice President of Amazon Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

“We are always looking for ways to improve our service to our customers and provide them with added benefits when they shop with Amazon, and we are confident they will enjoy shopping with this new product we have launched in the UAE,” he said. add.

The partnership will expand LuLu’s presence in e-commerce in a country where online and hybrid ‘brick and mortar’ shopping prevails on the rise.

The UAE is particularly open to mobile-assisted commerce, as the PYMNTS and Cybersource research found. Research, “The Global Shopping Index 2022: UAE Edition”, observing that more than 60% of consumers in the country used a smartphone at least once during their most recent shopping experience, either online or in store.

Yusuff Ali, chairman and managing director of Lulu, said the company is ready to adapt to changing consumer preferences, saying: “We believe in listening to our customers and adapting our model to cater to their changing shopping preferences.”

“We are delighted to be [Amazon] Provide an innovative online grocery service,” he added.

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