Retail
Reliance Brands opens first Fabletics store in Delhi
Exclusive tie-up brings RFID fitting rooms and membership model to Indian activewear shoppers.
Meera Iyer · 6 Oct · 4 min read
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Retail
ITC seals full Yoga Bar ownership with ₹645 crore buyout
Remaining 52.5 percent stake gives the FMCG giant complete control of the clean-label nutrition brand ahead of festive health push.
Meera Iyer · 1 Oct · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Zepto Cafe cuts footprint to 250-350 sites after peak
Quick-commerce player scales back from 850-900 locations to focus on high-performing cities and tighter menus, easing dark-store cost pressure.
Ananya Rao · 30 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Zepto Cafe cuts footprint to 250-350 sites after peak
Quick-commerce firm scales back from 850-900 locations to focus on high-performing cities and tighter menus.
Ananya Rao · 29 Sep · 4 min read
Opinion · Ecommerce
Why Amazon and Flipkart still cannot ignore the dark-store math
Festive capacity is useless if the minutes layer keeps taking the daily habit.
The Desk · 23 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Zepto cuts Café outlets to 250-350 from 850-900
Menu slimmed and equipment sold as the quick-commerce player retrenches the food format after hygiene and demand issues.
Ananya Rao · 22 Sep · 4 min read
Retail
ITC hikes Classic Connect MRP to ₹428, Gold Flake to ₹89
Third round of tax pass-through lifts packs 9.7-12.7%, testing volume elasticity at paan shops and modern trade tills.
Meera Iyer · 17 Sep · 4 min read
Retail
Metro Brands opens first New Era store in Lucknow
406-sq-ft Phoenix Palassio outlet with embroidery lab brings licensed caps to tier-I fashion.
Meera Iyer · 9 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
JioMart Ajio lose weekly users while Blinkit Zepto gain millions
CLSA-Sensor Tower data show Reliance apps shed 1.7 million and 1.5 million weekly actives; Blinkit added 13.4 million in the same period.
Ananya Rao · 3 Sep · 4 min read
Supply Chain
DMart Blinkit cap sugar buys as prices rise 40%
Retailers and quick-commerce platforms limit packs per customer while supplies tighten ahead of Raksha Bandhan and festive demand.
Farhan Qureshi · 30 Aug · 4 min read
Ecommerce
ITC Nestle widen own e-stores with 30% discounts
FMCG majors expand direct platforms to more cities to cut marketplace fees and lock in shoppers before festive stocking.
Ananya Rao · 30 Aug · 4 min read
Retail
Snitch opens 111th store, targets ₹900 crore FY26 revenue
Indiranagar outlet marks milestone; brand also pilots 60-minute delivery from stores as dark nodes.
Meera Iyer · 28 Aug · 4 min read
Retail
Snitch opens first Kolkata store expands to 127 outlets
D2C menswear brand continues offline push with eastern India entry on 15 August.
Meera Iyer · 25 Aug · 4 min read
Supply Chain
Delhivery does not want your dark store. That is the story.
Sahil Barua told the Street what 3PLs have been whispering: point-to-point q-commerce last mile has no network effect worth owning. The money is still in the long haul.
Farhan Qureshi · 18 Aug · 7 min read
Ecommerce
Blinkit is no longer a side quest. It is Eternal's company.
Zomato's parent is discovering what every marketplace learns too late: the 10-minute grocery habit pays the bills the 30-minute meal no longer does.
Ananya Rao · 17 Aug · 7 min read
Supply Chain
Shadowfax, ElasticRun, and the Bharat mile the dark stores will not touch.
Someone still has to take a packet to a town that is not on a 10-minute map. That someone is having a better decade than the pitch decks admit.
Farhan Qureshi · 12 Aug · 5 min read
Payments
PhonePe is a payments company that wants to be a switch. Those are different jobs.
UPI made a giant. The next decade is whether that giant is a surface, a lender, or the rails themselves.
Kabir Menon · 12 Aug · 7 min read
Ecommerce
Meesho already won the customer everyone else is still pitching.
Value commerce is not a tier-2 story. It is the majority of Indian ecommerce, and it does not care about your 10-minute milk.
Meera Iyer · 10 Aug · 6 min read