.Walmart-owned Flipkart has gone into the quick-commerce nationality along with a company called Minutes.The ecommerce agency has opened the fast-delivery company to users in choose locations of Bengaluru, going beyond employees at its own headquarter listed below that were recently supplied it on a test basis.The company has actually gone survive on the Flipkart app, ET has seen. Over the upcoming couple of full weeks, it will definitely be actually expanded to additional locations in Bengaluru, folks aware said.In locales like Belandur as well as HSR, Flipkart Minutes is actually delivering groceries, electronics, cell phones and various other items within 8-16 minutes.This marks Flipkart's formal entry in quick business, tackling Swiggy's Instamart, Zomato's Blinkit, Zepto and BigBasket's BB Now.Flipkart didn't right away deliver a comment on the launch.ET to begin with stated on July 15 Flipkart's strategies to run around one hundred dark retail stores to charge up its own quick-commerce offerings during the course of the joyful period this year. Dark stores are miniature storage facilities where shipments are actually made." Given the technique the market place and customer preferences have progressed, the service will initially be stabilised in specific wallets, and after that be scaled," ET had actually reported last month pointing out sources informed on Flipkart's planning to scale the business.Last full week Blinkit claimed it plans to grow its own dark shop count to 2,000 through 2026, increasing adverse its own earlier declared programs to possess 1,000 dark retail stores by March 2025. Zepto likewise intends to double its network to 700 dark shops by March 2025. Swiggy Instamart has much more than 500 such storage facilities, while Blinkit had 639 dark shops by the end of June 2024. Industry executives assume high-octane activity from the ultra-fast delivery section during the course of this year's cheery period, which is usually understood for big-ticket sales from Amazon.com India and also Flipkart.
Released On Aug 6, 2024 at 08:01 AM IST.
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