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In recent years, a number of logistics aggregators have emerged in India to fulfill the growing need for delivering perishables in minutes. Their nimble, asset-light operations are drawing attention.
We tend to take a lot of things for granted. Nice things, especially. Like how does your favourite brand of ice cream reach your doorstep, barely 20 minutes after you’ve placed an order for it?
An easy answer is: the quick-commerce delivery executive picked it up from a store and dropped it at your door. Right, but what came before that?
How is it that quick-commerce consumers today have the option to choose from the widest range of ice cream brands? Even the smallest, unheard-of brands are able to command a distribution across these quick-commerce apps.
Take Hocco’s Aamchi ice …
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
Four years after listing, the logistics company is still searching for sustainable growth as rising costs, weak pricing power and limited new engines weigh on margins.
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.
