bigbasket
12 ARTICLES
Why won’t VCs or anyone else invest in BigBasket?
Early movers don’t always win and other lessons from India’s constantly evolving startup landscape.
06 Sept 2025
Why can’t BigBasket crack the quick-commerce code?
Crippled by late entry into instant delivery and Tata Digital’s disproportionate attention to its super app, Big Basket today lags far behind peers. As if it weren’t enough, parent Tata Sons has now pulled back from a proposed funding round.
26 Feb 2025
With gold sales, did quick commerce bite off more than it could chew?
In their pursuit of a bigger basket size, the quick commerce players took to selling gold coins this festive season. What they did not budget for is that unlike groceries, there is zero room for error when dealing with a high-value item.
07 Nov 2024
Tata Group-owned BigBasket falls short on strategy, pace, leadership
After a long period of dismissal, the grocery delivery company is now wholeheartedly embracing quick commerce. But first, it has some fundamental issues to address.
25 Jun 2024
Can Naveen Tahilyani fix Tata Digital’s rot?
The flop show of the super app Tata Neu isn’t the biggest problem for Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran. The new CEO he has now picked has more fundamental issues to fix.
15 Feb 2024
DealShare is an operational mess
The social commerce startup, after a year of explosive growth, has slowed to a crawl amid broken or delayed vendor payments, leakages and cooling interest.
10 Apr 2023
India’s startup growth story lacks fundamentals - Part 1
Indian tech startups and consumer internet companies have—or will—hit a wall. We look at why, sector by sector.
09 Mar 2023
Real numbers: The economics of express deliveries
15-minute deliveries are the flavour of the season. At what point does it all start making sense?
23 Aug 2021
BigBasket is one of Dunzo’s quiet dark stores
A look inside Dunzo's little-discussed transition to becoming a grocery app, with new branding, fulfilment centres and a tie-up with the Tata-owned e-grocer.
16 Jul 2021
With play for BigBasket, Tata shows its e-commerce intent
The salt-to-software group hopes the addition of the popular grocery platform will give its online presence a boost and underpin its super app ambitions.
22 Jan 2021