e-commerce
Snapdeal launches one-stop travel store
MUMBAI: E-commerce startup Snapdeal has announced the launch of a curated travel store—a one-stop shop for the travel necessities for all types of destinations including mountains, beaches, and wilderness.
The company states that the travel store offers a huge variety of ‘travel must-haves’ including bags and suitcases, camera, selfie sticks, bluetooth speakers, and headphones. The store offers the range of luggage pieces from Safari at a minimum discount of 60 per cent.
The store also has a range of accessories like neck pillow, car seat support, inflatable bed, and navigation system along with casual shoes, sunglasses, headwraps, gloves, scarves, and stoles. Users can also pick sunscreen lotions, moisturizers, face mist, lip balms, and dry shampoo. It also offers a wide variety of options of apparel to upgrade one’s travel wardrobe.
For the ones travelling with babies, Snapdeal has also selected baby carriers, prams, diaper bags, sleeping bags, bottle sterilizer, mosquito repellents, and more. Women can also pick personal hygiene items like pee safe, pee cone, disposable toilet seat cover, hand sanitizers, wet wipes, intimate wash among others.
The store also offers an additional instant discount of 10 per cent to people paying via SBI debit card.
e-commerce
Instamart and Duolingo launch street spell check campaign for Instaprint
Duo the owl fixes signboard typos across cities to showcase instant printing.
MUMBAI: If spelling mistakes had a sworn enemy, it might just be a bright green owl with a printer. Instamart has teamed up with language learning platform Duolingo for a quirky nationwide campaign that turns everyday spelling errors into a public spectacle while promoting its instant printing service, InstaPrint. The playful activation takes aim at the many misspelled shop boards and public signs scattered across Indian streets. From “saloons” that promise haircuts rather than drinks to menus and posters peppered with punctuation mishaps, the campaign sends Duolingo’s mascot Duo on a mission to restore linguistic order.
Armed with Instamart’s instant printing feature, Duo prints corrected versions of the mistakes on the spot and pastes them over the originals. The result is a series of humorous street interventions that have quickly begun circulating on social media.
Photos and videos of the grammar correcting owl have been widely shared online, with amused users reacting to the unexpected spell check patrol. One user joked, “Ab ayega na maza bhidu,” capturing the internet’s delight at the unusual campaign.
Behind the humour lies a practical message. The activation is designed to showcase the capabilities of Instaprint, Instamart’s printing service that allows users to print documents and posters almost instantly.
The company says the feature is meant for everyday needs such as printing resumes, visa documents or last minute posters without the usual scramble to locate a print shop.
Instamart introduced Instaprint in 2025 across select metropolitan cities including Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi. The service allows users to order printed materials directly through the platform, extending the quick commerce model beyond groceries and household essentials.
By combining Duolingo’s famously persistent owl with India’s street level spelling quirks, the campaign taps into the internet’s long running fascination with grammar mistakes while demonstrating a real world use case for instant printing.
After all, in a world full of typos, sometimes what you really need is a quick printer and a very determined language teacher.
