Important Notes

Corporate Office

Address : Walmart India Pvt.Ltd. 4th Floor, Orchid Center, Golf Course Road, Sector 53 Gurgaon 122002. (Haryana) India

Contact Number : +91-124-4568500

Email Address (Suppliers Queries) : [email protected]

Walmart India owns and operates 21 Best Price Modern Wholesale stores offering nearly 5,000 items in a Cash & Carry wholesale format. The Best Price stores offer best prices with unmatched convenience, choice, quality and hygiene.

Business

Wal-Mart India Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Walmart Stores Inc., the world’s leading retailer renowned for its efficiency and expertise in logistics, supply chain management and sourcing. Wal-Mart India owns and operates 21 Best Price Modern Wholesale stores in 9 States across India. The first store opened in Amritsar in May 2009.

As a responsible company, Walmart India strives to improve the quality of life for employees, customers and communities through financial contributions, in-kind donations and volunteerism. The company supports initiatives focused on enhancing opportunities in skills training, environment sustainability, women empowerment and community development. The company has a robust ‘Store of the Community’ program which encourages employees to volunteer in their local communities.

Best Price Modern Wholesale store

The Best Price stores offer best prices with unmatched convenience, choice, quality and hygiene. The mission of Best Price is "Enabling businesses to prosper…every single member". To enter and purchase from Best Price stores, it is mandatory to become a member. Members can belong to different business categories such as Resellers (‘Kirana Stores’); Offices and Institutions (O&I); and Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers (HoReCa). Around 5,000 items, including food and non-food items, are available at competitive wholesale prices by lowering cost of operations.

A typical Best Price cash-and-carry store spans over 50,000 square feet and sells a wide range of fresh, frozen and chilled foods, fruits and vegetables, dry groceries, personal and home care, hotel and restaurant suppliers, clothing, office supplies and other general merchandise items.

B2B E-Commerce

On 1st July, 2014, Walmart India launched B2B e-commerce platform and extended it to its Best Price store members (kirana stores, offices and institutions and hotels, caterers and restaurants & other business members), providing them with a convenient online shopping opportunity. As an exclusive virtual store for its members in 19 cities, the e-commerce platform provides a similar assortment of products, as well as special items.

Business Segments

Best Price caters to the needs of different business customers by providing relevant products and solutions to individual segments. They cater to three broad categories of business segments :

Reseller

They cater to multiple subsegments of Resellers like

- Kirana stores

- Electronics and durable outlets

- Stationery shops

- Fruits and vegetable outlets

- Commodities shops, poultry, meat and fish shops

- Confectionery Shops

- Apparel & Accessories

Best Price offers relevant categories for these subsegments such as

- FMCG foods

- Non Food

- Apparel

- Electronics

- Stationery

- Footwear

- Fancy items

- Staples

- Grocery

- Home Appliances

- Home Furnishing

- Fresh Meat

- Vegetables and Fruits

- Dairy & Confectionery and many more

Best Price offers good availability, competitive pricing and greater margins to help maximize business profits for these segments. In addition, resellers can also benefit from easy payment and delivery solutions.

Offices and Institutions

Best Price caters to a large number of O&I members across their stores that includes several Fortune 500 companies. They provide a customized assortment and services to

- Offices

- Schools and Colleges

- Hospitals

- Manufacturing Units

- Armed Forces

- Religious and Cooperative Organizations

Segments mentioned above can avail advantage of a wide range of assortment, transparent and competitive prices and great member service. They offer a relevant assortment such as office supplies, housekeeping products, electronics, general merchandise and requirements for canteens like FMCG, commodity, grocery, etc. They also provide customized payment solutions to these segments to provide greater convenience and enhance overall buying experience.

Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers

They cater to a large number of HoReCa members across 21 existing stores. They have a customized assortment and solutions to meet the needs of multiple subsegments like

- Hotels

- Restaurant and Dhabas

- Caterers

- Mithai & Sweet Shops

- Bakers

Some of the star hoteliers and caterers are their prestigious members.

Members get the benefit of a wide range of products to suit their needs at competitive and transparent prices, great shopping experience, and convenient payment and delivery solutions. They also have a well-equipped and trained sales team who provide services to business members at their doorstep to enhance their overall experience as Best Price members.

Stores

A typical Best Price cash-and-carry store spans over 50,000 square feet offering more than 5,000 items across product categories such as :

- Consumer Packaged Goods (Food & Non Food)

- General Merchandise

- Household Electronics

- Appliances

- Fresh (Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry, Mutton, Fish)

- Dairy (Milk and Milk Products)

Many more other products are also available under one roof, at everyday low and transparent prices to business members, allowing retailers and business owners to lower their cost of operations and maximize their revenues. Over 90-95% of these products are sourced locally. This helps to keep costs to a minimum, adds to the growth of local economy and creates job opportunities. Enhanced job opportunities are also created locally as the store directly employs from the local community.

Brands

Best Price stores have a dedicated Private Label program to meet the unique needs of resellers ('Kirana stores'), offices and institutions, hotels, restaurants and caterers.

This program has been designed after in-depth and meticulous research on the demographic structure of country and its unique needs, demands and aspirations of various business segments.

The Private Label program offerings strengthen the assortment of 'kiranas’ and small businesses to compete with modern retail. The price structure allows profitability to the members, which allows them to pass on the price savings to the end-customers, thereby helping them to save money and live better.

Private label products are sourced in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements (conformance to ethical, social and environmental norms, quality, food safety, and packaging). A dedicated team ensures that all the products are rigorously tested for quality and adherence to the highest standards before they are sold at their stores. As products for Private Label are sourced from local suppliers and manufacturers in the SME category, it helps boost the local economy and strengthen the company’s supply chain.

Best Price offers two exclusive private brands: Right Buy and Member's Mark. These brands are exclusively available at all 21 Best Price stores. The brand promise of the two brands is “High on Quality, big on Savings.”

Right Buy : This is an opening price point brand that offers quality products at low prices. The brand offers a promise of “Pay less, Save more” enabling members to enhance their profits. It offers products across food, grocery, cleaning aids and more. Some of the best selling products are bath towels, hand towels, glass cleaner, toilet cleaner, floor cleaners, cornflakes, variety of pulses, papad, spices, sugar, salt, Assam blend CTC tea leaves, cookies, mustard oil, pet bottles, toothbrush, paper ream, pen, pencil, files and match boxes.

Member’s Mark : The brand that stands for “Selected for quality” offers high levels of quality equivalent to the leading brands, but at very competitive prices. These products employ strictest test standards to ensure high levels of quality. Products include frozen mixed vegetables, frozen green peas, drinking water, danedar ghee, vacuum pack dry fruits, sulphurless sugar, fruit drink variants in apple, orange, mango, guava, mixed fruit juices, CFL light bulbs, executive chairs and apparel / home collection.

Suppliers

Their network of committed suppliers helps them satisfy the needs of hundreds of customers every day. To join the thousands of businesses around the country, you can apply here. Don’t forget to check out the minimum expectations from suppliers.

Supplying To Walmart India Our minimum expectations from suppliers :

Sustainable Relationship

They strive to have sustainable and win-win relationship with all their suppliers.

Product

They are focused on meeting the expectations of their members.

- Quality products, which fulfill members’ requirements.

- Private brand products which fill the gap in the market.

- Leading National and International brands that members expect to find on their store shelves.

- Regional products which are sourced based on local demand.

- Competitively priced products.

Supply Chain Efficiency

This results in cost efficiency and better value to their members.

- Supply chain must be managed efficiently.

- Shortages must be exceptional.

- Any underperformance should be analyzed and quickly addressed.

Quality and Safety

They follow certified standards for purchasing any product. This helps them in maintaining members’ trust.

- Product must demonstrate the requisite quality before it can be approved for purchase.

- Compliance with domestic requirements and regulations is must for suppliers.

- Consistent product safety and quality is ensured by consecutive inspections across the entire manufacturing and supply chain.

Responsible Sourcing

Ethically and Environmentally Responsible. They believe that environmentally sensitive facilities and compliant processes add quality and value to their products. Their commitment does not stop there; they see real promise in their ability to bring cleaner, more environmentally safe and preferred products within the reach of people around the world. They would like their suppliers to partner with them in their sustainability initiative wherever and however possible.

Know Them

As a potential supplier, one of the most important things you can do is get to know how Walmart India works. Whether you are brand new to their stores or you have known them for years, here are a few ways to understand how they help their customers and members save money and live better – while consistently maintaining their commitment to quality.

- Visit Walmart India’s Best Price Modern Wholesale Stores in your area. Get a sense of what their stores are like. Especially if you’re interested in becoming a local supplier, information about your local stores can be invaluable. Find a Best Price store

- Compare your product or service to existing ones. Look at the types of products they sell. Does what you have to offer seem like a good fit? Would your product be appropriate on Best Price store shelves? Is your product innovative, high on quality and at a competitive price?

- Make sure you understand their shoppers’ needs. When they choose new items to stock, they select products members will want. How would your product improve their members’ lives? Walmart India serves thousands of members from across 21 Best Price Modern Wholesale Stores.

Diversity in the Supply Chain

If you are a woman-owned business, please write to them with your product details. Walmart India is committed to double sourcing from woman-owned businesses (WOBs). They tailor strategies by market and work with a variety of organizations to identify woman-owned businesses. They establish baselines, assess the types of WOBs in their supplier base, understand the common challenges for buyers and suppliers, and design solutions that bridge these challenges while keeping the business goals and local culture in mind.

Walmart India is working to increase the volume of sourcing from WOBs in order to strengthen the diversity in its supply chain.