Sodexo Joins Hands With BigBasket to Simplify Day-to-day Grocery Shopping This New Year

Sodexo, the leader in employee motivation and benefits services, welcomes 2018 with one more e-commerce partnership. The Sodexo Meal Card can now be used to shop for fresh and packed food & beverages on bigbasket.com, India's largest online grocery store. With an aim to ease the everyday food shopping experience for their 3 million+ daily users, Sodexo has joined hands with BigBasket to enable the acceptance of the Sodexo Meal Card on BigBasket.com. The Meal Card users can now shop for food and non-alcoholic beverages on BigBasket.com.

Sodexo caters to a large consumer base of millennials; this partnership empowers them with a wide variety of choice. These millennials can be rest assured that their food and grocery delivery will be taken care of once they place their order through the BigBasket platform and pay using their Sodexo Meal Card.

Stephane Michelin, CEO Sodexo Benefits and Rewards, explained, "Sodexo's focus in the past year in India has been about enhancing the consumer experience of our users. In our endeavour to completely digitize our solutions, we have partnered with various best-in-class solution providers. The partnership with BigBasket was a specific request from our consumers who are short on time and seek convenience. With this partnership, Sodexo will enable quick, hassle-free payments for the large base of 3 million daily consumers who can enjoy shopping on the go and be assured of secured transactions across web and app platforms of BigBasket."

Hari Menon, CEO of BigBasket said, "This is a critical partnership for BigBasket to ensure customer satisfaction and delight. In their offline avatar, Sodexo meal vouchers formed a substantial part of customer payments towards grocery purchases on BigBasket. With Sodexo going digital, it fits in even more seamlessly with the BigBasket online platform."