Food & Hospitality
eIndianGrocery
The Indian pantry, delivered — same-day in Chicago, shipped nationwide.
“The Indian pantry, delivered”
The problem
Diaspora grocery is served either by a corner store with no inventory system or by a national marketplace that does not carry the brand you actually want.
In short
An authentic Indian grocery business: the spices, dals, flours, ghee and frozen staples people grew up with, cold-chain packed, delivered same-day across Chicago and shipped anywhere in the US. The storefront is live while the platform is rebuilt onto Surana Holdings infrastructure.
- Catalog
- ~500 SKUs
- Chicago
- Same-day
- Nationwide
- Free over $149
- Platform
- Rebuild in progress
Delivery terms as published on eindiangrocery.com; catalog size from the migrated product export. The storefront is live while the platform migrates to a relational schema.
What is built
- Live storefront with same-day Chicago delivery and nationwide shipping
- An AI grocery concierge for search and substitution
- Relational rebuild off a single-table prototype store, with versioned migrations and real row-level security
- SKU reconciliation work to give the catalog a dependable identity spine
How it earns
- Retail grocery orders, delivered and shipped
- Tiered and volume pricing with margin floors
- Fresh and prepared ranges at higher margin
- Subscription and repeat-pantry ordering
Where it goes
- Complete the platform migration and retire the prototype backend
- Bring payments fully onto the new stack
- Extend the concierge into reorder and pantry planning
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