The mile

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Warehouses, line-haul, 3PLs, Delhivery, rail freight and last-mile economics in Indian commerce. Daily notes from Qhaat.

Stacked snack cartons on a small wholesale counter with weighing scale

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D2C food brands widen offline trade as quick-commerce shelves fill

Dark-store space crunch before festive forces snacks and sweets makers onto B2B marketplaces and kirana-modern trade routes.

Farhan Qureshi · 3 Oct · 4 min read

Vast empty warehouse interior with high racks and scattered cardboard cartons under industrial lights

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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

Large empty warehouse aisle with stacked cartons and conveyor belts under industrial lights

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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

Piles of sports equipment boxes and stacked bicycles in a warehouse loading bay

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Decathlon B2B grows 20-fold, now 10% of revenue

Wholesale arm reaches 20,000-plus pincodes and over 90 percent of India, lifting institutional and small-city reach.

Farhan Qureshi · 14 Sep · 4 min read

Open sacks of grains and vegetables under market canopy light

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India retail inflation seen at 4.9 percent in August

Mint poll of 21 economists projects 20-month high on food prices, lifting input costs just before festive buying.

Farhan Qureshi · 12 Sep · 4 min read

Open jute sacks of white sugar crystals on a wholesale market floor

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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

Open 50-kg sugar sacks and weighing scale on a wholesale shop floor under bare bulb light

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DMart Blinkit Zepto cap sugar at 2-5 kg per order

Festive squeeze hits tills and dark stores as retail prices climb past ₹65/kg; limits spread from modern trade to quick commerce.

Farhan Qureshi · 29 Aug · 4 min read

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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

Line-haul trucks on an Indian highway at dawn

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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

Foggy Indian highway with freight trucks

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Delhivery Maps is a logistics company admitting that India is still unmapped.

An AI-native commercial map sounds like a side product. For anyone who has ever lost a rider in a housing society, it is the product.

Farhan Qureshi · 9 Aug · 5 min read