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Ecommerce

Amazon bets $3 billion on India quick commerce dark stores

Plan lifts Amazon Now from roughly 750 stores toward 1,300 by April and targets daily essentials share now at 6.2 percent.

Ananya Rao · 1 Oct · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Amazon sets Great Indian Festival for 8 October with 1.6 lakh jobs

Network adds 20 fulfilment centres and 150 last-mile stations just as shoppers start stocking lists.

Ananya Rao · 23 Sep · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Amazon India eyes 300 cities and 3,000 quick-commerce stores

Late entrant pushes micro-fulfilment and urban centres; Prime free speed raises the bar for Blinkit Zepto.

Ananya Rao · 16 Sep · 4 min read

Retail

Zudio opens 23,000-sq-ft store at Gurugram corporate park

Tata value-fashion brand anchors M2K complex; first major apparel play in the mixed-use hub targets office and residential traffic.

Meera Iyer · 5 Sep · 4 min read

Empty two-level apparel store interior with clothing racks and bright overhead lighting

Retail

Zudio opens 23,000 sq ft store at Gurugram M2K Corporate Park

Two-floor value fashion anchor for Trent brand brings apparel density to a mixed-use hub and tests corporate-park footfall.

Meera Iyer · 2 Sep · 4 min read

Retail

Croma parent swings to ₹159 crore profit, adds 45 stores

Infiniti Retail closes 35 weak outlets and turns operationally profitable, raising the bar for electronics chains.

Meera Iyer · 1 Sep · 4 min read

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Platforms

Flipkart Minutes overtakes Instamart with 627 dark stores

CLSA mapping of top-10 cities shows Walmart unit ahead of Swiggy on both store count and pincode coverage, tightening the race for merchant shelf space.

Rhea Kapoor · 31 Aug · 4 min read

Rows of shelving inside a compact urban dark store under bright lights

Ecommerce

Blinkit Instamart Zepto dark stores hit 5,026

Combined network jumps nearly 48 percent as qcom market grows 40 percent year-on-year.

Ananya Rao · 25 Aug · 4 min read

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Opinion · Ecommerce

Inventory models and giant entrants will test q-comm’s thin margins

Blinkit’s playbook is being copied while Amazon and Flipkart build parallel dark-store empires; capital and turns decide survival.

The Desk · 21 Aug · 4 min read

Quick-commerce dark store aisle at night

Ecommerce

Amazon Now's 100-city map is a threat. It is also a confession.

The company that taught India two-day delivery is now paying to look like a dark store. The investment is real. The question is whether Prime and 10 minutes can share a brain.

Meera Iyer · 15 Aug · 6 min read