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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The likes of KNOT, Zulu Club and Slikk are trying out several ways to make the latest trend in quick commerce work. But standing up to the big boys of online retail will be an arduous challenge.
The success of quick-commerce startups such as Blinkit, Instamart and Zepto in disrupting India’s fast-moving consumer goods industry and forcing legacy players to do business with them has led to an ambitious belief: that something similar is possible in nearly every other industry. Its origin lies in the hypothesis that all of e-commerce can be gradually turned into quick commerce if shoppers are rightly tempted.
The biggest test of this hypothesis is playing out in fashion. A handful of young startups have jumped on the quick fashion delivery bandwagon. There is Gurugram-based Zulu Club, which promises 100-minute deliveries in Delhi-NCR. …
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
Surprisingly strong metrics alongside aggressive expansion mask a lurking balance-sheet risk. Moreover, competition is not going to be kind to the retail giant any time soon.
Telecom and retail both continue with their ‘hit and miss’, while O2C delivers an unsurprisingly poor performance in Q4. This is a year RIL will be glad to see the back of.
