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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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Opinion · Ecommerce

Will dark-store scale finally cool the q-comm discount war?

As Amazon and Flipkart near 1,000 sites the incentive race shows early signs of moderation, yet festive demand could reignite burns.

The Desk · 29 Sep · 4 min read

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Opinion · Ecommerce

Why quick commerce profits still look uneven

Blinkit turns operating profit while Zepto and others post heavy losses; subsidy cuts and policy costs decide who scales into festive demand.

The Desk · 22 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

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Ecommerce

Karnataka suspends Amazon Instamart BigBasket food licences

State acts after Datura sold as food with FSSAI numbers; quick-commerce platforms face immediate compliance heat.

Ananya Rao · 26 Aug · 4 min read

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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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Ecommerce

Zepto hikes free delivery minimum to ₹299

Threshold jumps up to 100 per cent in peak hours, aligning with Blinkit and Instamart and testing low-basket shoppers.

Kabir Menon · 23 Aug · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Quick commerce crosses 9 million daily orders

Six platforms together hit 9.1 million orders a day in August data, with Blinkit still clear leader and festive capacity build under way.

Ananya Rao · 22 Aug · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Swiggy clears path for Instamart inventory model

Shareholders approve India-owned structure so the quick-commerce arm can stock goods like Blinkit and chase better margins.

Ananya Rao · 22 Aug · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Quick commerce platforms cross 9 million daily orders in August run-rate

Blinkit still leads, Zepto second, while Amazon Now and Flipkart Minutes add scale ahead of festive season.

Ananya Rao · 21 Aug · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Swiggy wins shareholder nod for IOCC status, clears path for Instamart inventory model

Foreign ownership capped at 49.5 percent so the quick-commerce arm can hold stock like Blinkit and chase better contribution margins.

Ananya Rao · 21 Aug · 4 min read