Retail
DMart lifts store count to 518 as Q2 revenue rises 18.4% to ₹19,206 crore
Strong top line failed to calm investors worried about same-store growth and quick-commerce leakage; shares fell over 6%.
Meera Iyer · 7 Oct · 4 min read
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20 stories for “logistics”
Supply Chain
Flipkart Ekart adds 14 million cu ft storage and 900 hubs
Warehousing capacity jumps 50 per cent and last-mile reach widens for Big Billion Days and remote same-day.
Farhan Qureshi · 2 Oct · 4 min read
Supply Chain
Flipkart adds 750 PIN codes and 14 million cu ft via Ekart
Logistics arm lifts national storage 50 percent and peak processing over 30 percent ahead of Big Billion Days.
Farhan Qureshi · 1 Oct · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Nykaa posts ₹7,374 crore 9M revenue on 25% growth
One Nykaa model with owned brands drives the print, putting pressure on pure D2C beauty sellers and offline counters ahead of festive GMV.
Ananya Rao · 30 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Nykaa posts ₹7,374 crore 9M revenue on 25 pc growth
Beauty and fashion platform’s One Nykaa model with owned brands drives GMV; D2C sellers and offline beauty counters watch the share grab.
Ananya Rao · 28 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Meesho draws Nomura Reduce tag as valuation premium bites
Stock slips 5% after the broker flags premium to peers despite lower NMV growth, squeezing merchant acquisition budgets.
Ananya Rao · 27 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Amazon opens first Varanasi fulfilment centre
New 1-lakh-cubic-feet hub and sort centre cut festive delivery times in UP, squeezing local courier margins and kirana restock cycles.
Ananya Rao · 26 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
FSSAI starts penal action against Amazon Flipkart Zepto Instamart
Five platforms face proceedings over Happilo claims and Dhatura listings, raising compliance costs for every dark-store operator.
Ananya Rao · 24 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Nykaa 9M revenue hits ₹7,374 crore up 25%
Beauty and fashion platform’s One Nykaa model keeps GMV and owned brands growing even as physical retail densifies.
Ananya Rao · 20 Sep · 4 min read
Opinion · Ecommerce
Why quick commerce keeps climbing the price ladder
From groceries to iPhones, the ten-minute promise is being stress-tested on margins that traditional retail still owns.
The Desk · 19 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Blinkit lists iPhone 18 Pro day-one in 10 cities
Eternal’s quick-commerce arm partners Apple for launch-day high-ticket electronics, lifting shares 1.5% and raising the stakes for every dark-store P&L.
Ananya Rao · 19 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Nykaa 9M revenue climbs 25% to ₹7,374 crore
Beauty and lifestyle platform outpaces mass apparel peers, lifting owned brands and curated global lines.
Ananya Rao · 18 Sep · 4 min read
Ecommerce
Flipkart creates 2.5 lakh festive jobs, adds 900 hubs
Walmart arm expands last-mile by 1.4 lakh roles ahead of Big Billion Days, squeezing smaller logistics players on rider supply.
Ananya Rao · 17 Sep · 4 min read
Platforms
Flipkart launches Fashion Spotlight, targets 500 D2C brands
Marketplace programme gives Tier-2 fashion labels video tools, live commerce and virtual try-on to scale before festive, cutting discovery cost for new sellers.
Rhea Kapoor · 10 Sep · 4 min read
Retail
Reliance Consumer launches Bombay Creamery from ₹10
New ice-cream brand with real dairy cream rolls out in West India first, targeting affordable premium.
Meera Iyer · 9 Sep · 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
Flipkart's dark-store sprint is not about grocery. It is about not becoming yesterday.
1,500 dark stores by year-end is a number designed to sound like Blinkit. The harder trick is making Minutes a habit without torching the marketplace that still pays the rent.
Ananya Rao · 16 Aug · 6 min read
Ecommerce
Zepto's IPO clock is a product review in disguise.
The 2026 new-age pipeline has a grocery app in it because public markets now understand 10-minute demand. They still have to price 10-minute costs.
Ananya Rao · 14 Aug · 6 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
Platforms
ONDC had a quiet year. That might be the good news.
The protocol did not kill Amazon. It also did not die. India's public digital commerce layer is settling into the unglamorous job: being a pipe some apps use.
Rhea Kapoor · 11 Aug · 6 min read