Online Grocery

TMS Ep415: Blinkit's troubles, erratic weather, telecom stocks, Bombay Club

Do Blinkit's troubles raise doubts about its biz model? What do heat waves tell us about India's erratic weather? Should investors dial telecom stocks? What was the Bombay Club? All answers here

Reliance JioMart shuts its 90-minute delivery service 'Express': Report

Now, JioMart is asking users to use WhatsApp to order groceries for a delivery time of a few hours to a day

Flipkart opens its 3rd and largest fulfillment center in Unnao district

This facility will offer customers a wide-variety of close to 400 regional grocery products across more than 100 categories including household supplies, staples, tea, snacks and beverages

A match not made in start-up heaven

The current turmoil in the start-up world isn't all about the so-called funding winter. A bigger problem is the chasm between the goals of founders and investors

Customers saved Rs 1,515 crore using discounts on BigBasket in 2022

BigBasket served a total of 8.5 million households enabled by a fleet of 35,565 delivery partners

Bigbasket may launch IPO by 2025 after $200 million funding: CFO Parekh

Controlling about a third of India's online grocery market, Bigbasket was acquired by Tata last year

Amazon sees 'huge opportunity' for India grocery service: Executive

Grocery business will spread 'deep into Bharat', says e-commerce firm as it shuts down some other smaller units

E-groceries, fresh-food get festival season boost from tier-2 & 3 cities

The fresh-food category, witnessed a surge in demand, especially from tier-2 and -3 cities

ONDC goes live with beta launch in Bengaluru; 161 orders placed on Day 1

Govt-owned network starts in Bengaluru with online grocery, restaurant orders

Paytm Mall becomes first to go live on ONDC in Bengaluru beta test

People can place orders in grocery and restaurant segments for now

Now, order your iPhone 14 on Blinkit and get it delivered in minutes

Service available in Delhi and Mumbai for now. Apple reseller Unicorn Infosolutions to store inventory

Night grocery delivery: Next on agenda for quick e-commerce platforms

In August, Swiggy said it had witnessed a 16-fold growth in orders in the 12 months to June, with Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad ordering more items than the whole population of Canada

Organised food, grocery retailers' revenues to grow 20% YoY in FY23: Crisil

Also, despite heightened competition from quick commerce players, revenue of food and grocery retailers will be higher by 38% over FY20

Meta partners with Reliance Jiomart to offer grocery shopping on WhatsApp

'First-ever end-to-end shopping experience' on messaging platform, says Mark Zuckerberg

Swiggy Instamart delivered 50 mn egg, 30 mn milk orders in past two years

Some 62,000 tonnes of fruits and vegetables were ordered on Instamart during the past year. This is the weight of about 15,500 Asian elephants, Swiggy said

Changing customer behaviour helps establish new age e-commerce models

New e-commerce players have set a hawk-eye focus on the latest dynamic trends to ensure success for years to come

BigBasket FY22 revenue up 17% to Rs 7,119 cr, loss widens 4x to Rs 813 cr

BigBasket expects GMV to grow 30% to Rs 13,000 cr in FY23 with quick commerce push; will scale up offline stores from 90 to 695 in a year, will double footprint to 70 cities

Flipkart Grocery leans on smaller towns in bid to reach 20,000 PIN codes

Flipkart Grocery currently offers 7,000 products in 1,800 cities covering 10,000 PIN codes, served by 23 fulfilment centres spread over an area of 2.75 million sq ft

Zomato's Blinkit acquisition may delay its road to profitability: Analysts

Due to limited financial and operating data, and intense competition, we forecast Blinkit to turn profitable only by FY27. Thus, he path to profitability for Zomato may get extended from FY25 to FY26

BigBasket raises Rs 350 cr from holding firm as it takes on competitors

The online grocer plans to expand its footprint to 70 cities this fiscal year, from about 37 now.