Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecom service providers, has recently entered into a strategic tie-up with Walmart India, the wholly owned subsidiary of world’s largest retailer Walmart Stores to introduce the mobile wallet service, M-Pesa. This tie-up will enable business members of six Best Price Modern Wholesale stores, owned and operated by Walmart India, to make payments using MPesa from their mobile anywhere, anytime. The facility will initially be available at Walmart stores in Lucknow, Amravati, Aurangabad, Hyderabad, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada and Guntur.
In the first-of-its-kind partnership with Walmart India, the service enables all its members, including small businesses such as kiranas/resellers, the benefit of sending money through their mobile phones instantly & securely and run their customer facing businesses more efficiently and in hassle-free manner.