What’s the best grocery store you’ve ever visited? The one with the freshest and highest quality products, some of which are often hard to find in stores? We are sure that you have your favorite one. But did you know that there are top 20 supermarkets bringing the best groceries to us!
1.Big Bazaar
Big Bazaar, founded in 2001, is the leading hypermarket/supermarket chain with 300+ stores in over 120 cities. Big Bazaar stands first in our list because of its multiple reasons. It has a never-ending assortment of in-house brands, which includes utensils, home furnishings, crockeries, cutleries, clothing, toys, and sports goods at reasonable prices with endless offers. The market is air-conditioned, well-lit with proper markings for each section with all facilities, and easy to access and navigate giving us the best ambiance. The best time for purchase is usually around the end of the season or during festive times to avail best offers and discounts.
2.D Mart
Avenue Supermarts Limited or D-Mart is the second largest chain of supermarkets with about 180+ stores across India.It has a record in the market for providing affordable goods to consumers during the pandemic, which has made it the 65th most valuable firm after Britannia industries and Bank of Baroda. They deal in home-utility products like home appliances, kitchenware, food, garments, clothes, toys, bed and bath linen, and toiletries.
3.Easyday
Easyday is an Indian retail brand that runs chains of supermarkets. It was a joint venture by Bharti Enterprises and Walmart. They launched their first store in Punjab in 2006. Currently, about 523 stores are present in 15 states across the country. It is a one-stop solution that provides all necessary products in one place.
4.HyperCity
HyperCITY Retail India Ltd. is a supermarket chain founded in 2006. Its first store was launched in Mallad, Mumbai, and was a part of K Raheja Corp, then bought by Future group, which runs 20 stores throughout the country. It mainly sells Food, Home, and Fashion, as the logo suggests. They focus on in-store engagement and involve many activities throughout the year to enhance staff-customer interaction. Their association with the “FOOD-FOOD” channel allows live cooking show shootings in their outlets.
5.Reliance Retail Limited
Reliance, the country’s largest retail firm, was founded in 2006 by Mr. Mukesh Ambani. The company has more than 17,000 stores and 9 million customers spread over 100+ cities and towns across India, making it the biggest retailer in the country. It’s notable that Reliance Retail makes up for half of all retail sales in India and part of its business involves selling of oil and gas to other businesses in addition to groceries.
6.Reliance Smart & Reliance Fresh
Reliance smart provides a one-stop shopping experience to its customers by providing fresh produce like dairy products, farm-fresh goods like veggies, fruits and groceries, bakery products, home, and personal care products, etc. Reliance fresh appears sixth in the list of top 20 supermarkets in India. It is a subsidiary of Reliance retail limited that solely deals in fresh farm greens, veggies, fruits, and groceries for customers at affordable pricing.
7.Reliance Digital
Reliance Digital is a consumer electronics retail store launched in Delhi in 2007. It is a subsidiary of the reliance industry that focuses solely on digital products. There are 8600+ stores across India currently.
8.Reliance Trends
Reliance Trends is another subsidiary of Reliance retail limited and is one of the leading lifestyle retail brands in India. It specializes in style, fashion, and clothing products. The clothing accessories are of high-end quality. Apparel of multiple sizes is widely available. No doubt why it is a suitable place as a one-stop purchase shop for a family.
9.Big Basket
It is an online retail supermarket introduced by TATA enterprises. The brand ambassador for this venture is Superstar Shah Rukh Khan itself. Big Basket is an Online platform delivery system. It is the most renowned and preferred by many customers who don’t get time to visit supermarkets. For them, this online supermart is nothing less than a boon.
10.Grofers
It is an online grocery supermarket founded by Albinder Dhindsa & Saurabh Kumar as Grofers, presently known as BlinkIt renowned for its 10 min delivery service. They mainly deliver groceries, dairy products, bakery products, fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, personal care, baby care, pet-care products, stationery items, flowers, snacks, drinks, etc. The company has faced criticism for its 10-min delivery system. It involves the safety of delivery staff, but to date, no accidents have been reported, hence claiming to be a safe system.
11.More Supermarket
More Retail Pvt. Ltd., formerly known as Aditya Birla Retail Limited (Aditya Birla group), was later sold to Samara group & Amazon is a national multi-channel grocery retailer. It has two format stores, supermarkets, and hypermarkets with 878 supermarkets in 30 cities across India. They also provide customer products under their label at better prices.
12.Nature’s Basket
Godrej group founded Nature’s Basket in Mumbai in 2005. It is a grocery delivery retail store with 30+ supermarkets that sell groceries, fresh veggies, fruits, meat and cold cuts, cheese, dairy products, sweets, and gift items during special occasions. It also operates online and delivers across 120+ cities across India.
13.Organic World
The Organic World is a Bangalore-based Supermarket providing better choices in chemical and preservative-free natural products. They provide over 2000+ organic products at an affordable price that involves groceries, fresh fruits, veggies, dairy & bakery products, meat, fowl and eggs, self-care products, and other home cleaning products. Apart from stores, they have an online delivery platform as well.
14.Kovai Pazhamudhir Nilayam
Kovai Pazhamudir Nilayam lit. means “Coimbatore’s house of fruits”. It is a retail supermarket founded in 1965 by Chinnaswamy Natrajan & his brother Senthil Natrajan that has multiple outlets in Tamilnadu and Kerala and their sole focus is providing fresh fruits and vegetables to customers direct from farms to their homes. The store is set up like most other vegetable supermarkets, easy to access. It has multiple outlets in and around Chennai and eight major cities of Tamil Nadu.
15.Safal
In a country as huge as ours with its over 3,000-odd languages, dialects and ethnic groups, it’s not easy for one single supermarket to reach every nook and cranny in order to meet the diverse needs of customers. This is what makes Safal, a government initiative supermarket owned by the mother dairy subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), a brave new experience for many customers and delicious proof that our soil has really potential to feed all.
16.Spencer’s Retail
Spencers is a supermarket based on food first format (they offer fresh packaged food items) and started this venture in the southern part of India in the 1990s owned by RP- Sanjiv Goenka group. Spencers is a one-stop in-store that offers food and non-food items such as electronics, home improvisation products, juices, honey, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, clothing, kitchenware, utensils, crockery, and more.
17.Subhiksha
It was an Indian retail chain with 1600+ outlets that mainly sold groceries, fruits, vegetables, & medicines. Its first outlet was in Chennai in 1997, which increased to 50 stores in Chennai. Later the venture expanded to 1600 outlets in various states. But due to the downfall of its CEO, all outlets were shut down in 2009.
18.Brown Tree
Brown Tree is in the third last position on the list and is a famous Chennai-based Supermarket founded by Dinesh Kumar that specializes solely in snacks, bakery products, and health products.
19.Naturally Yours
Vinod Kumar and his wife Priya Prakash founded Naturally Yours. They launched their first supermarket in Borla, Mumbai, and also have an online platform that solely deals with healthy gluten-free products like Pasta and noodles. They promise to provide products free of maida, no added preservatives, and no junk suitable to consume for kids. Their products are rich with the goodness of quinoa, red rice, and millet. They make cane sugar & jaggery-based chocolates.
20.Nilgiris
It is the oldest supermarket chain in south India, dating back to 1905 during the British colonial period. Muthuswamy Mudalia started this venture upon various requests for dairy products, which is today a subsidiary of Future group. Nilgiris is renowned for its dairy product, chocolates, and bakery products.
