By Rob Stephen
Online grocery shopping is on the hype! People are no more confined to shopping cooking supplies, everyday essentials from supermarkets or grocery shops. Rather, they are finding solace in surfing through various online sites, sitting at their home and getting everything at their doorstep in few hours. The rise of e-Grocery is observed after biggies like Amazon, Tesco, Coles Supermarket started launching complete stores meant for supplying cooking essentials, other food and drinks items fresh within hours with fast delivery services. However, the question is what makes the trend flourish incessantly in the last few years? A number of reasonably priced and responsive themes provided by major eCommerce platforms are fuelling the trend. They are helping retailers to own visually appealing stores and sell thousands of items under wide-ranging categories.
Here we bring forth some popular Grocery store themes from Magento, a leading platform in the eCommerce development space.
#1 Fresh Market
This theme specially offers tailored templates for improving the market presence of a grocery store. It helps retailers support the sale of almost every grocery product, from raw food items, drinks, beverages to grocery items and appliances. Special features:
New and specialised modules
Fluid Grid
Best Seller modules
Custom Brand logo and Slider
Mega Menu
Compatibility with browsers
#2 SNS Zolo
It's one of the high-end and responsive themes, using which developers can create absolutely businesslike and stylish website that is also easy to navigate. Fresh and clean design along with easy customisation makes it a great choice for the startups. Host of features it offers:
Unlimited colours
Power Admin
Highly responsive layout
SNS Product Lab
AJAX filter
SNS Slider
#3 Venus Harvest Shop
Venus Harvest Store is a sophisticated Magento template to supports a particular category of grocery. i.e. Fruit store, Veggie Store or Health food. Specifically, it is suitable for that kind of products that need a beautiful and fresh-feel website. Template features include:
Simple and bright design
Multiple-store Support
Lightweight Megamenu Editor Tool
Easy installation
Multiple colour support and easy colour change
Impressive content style
Fast loading and browser compatibility
#4 Fruit Shop
If you are just a fruits dealer and runs your shop in the local market, then try this Premium Magento theme to sell perfectly the same online. It is flexible with vast customisation options. You can sell anything, from fruits, dry fruits, seeds, coffee beans, tea, juices and many more! Set of features of Fruit Shop are:
Special Home Page layout
Layered AJAX
Powerful Configuration
Unlimited Header options
Different types of Footer
Multi-Layout and Multicolor
One-page Checkout
Multi-language
#5 Wine Shop
It's an exclusive template designed by Magento to support the sale of wine, and other food drinks that fall into the grocery category. The great colour combination makes the theme professional and one can even customise the sub-pages too. Incredible features of Wine Shop are:
Unlimited banners and sliders
Featured Products Module
Custom Tab for Product Page
SEO friendly
Fast Loading
Multiple CMS Blocks
Developers are blending these themes with core Magento features to create websites that are no less than supermarkets, in terms of appeal and product availability. So if you have a plan running into your head for an online grocery store, get one from the Magento's templates library that suits your business type.
Rob Stephen is a certified Magento developer at PHPProgrammers, a leading eCommerce development company in Australia that has been developing striking online shopping solutions for businesses in different areas. You can follow the Facebook page to know more about web development and eCommerce trends.