.Walmart-owned Flipkart has actually entered the quick-commerce nationality with a service gotten in touch with Minutes.The ecommerce organization has opened up the fast-delivery service to consumers in select places of Bengaluru, exceeding workers at its own headquarter below that were actually previously provided it on a trial basis.The service has gone live on the Flipkart application, ET has observed. Over the following few full weeks, it will definitely be actually extended to additional places in Bengaluru, folks in the know said.In areas like Belandur and HSR, Flipkart Minutes is delivering grocery stores, electronics, cell phones and also other products within 8-16 minutes.This marks Flipkart's official entry in easy commerce, handling Swiggy's Instamart, Zomato's Blinkit, Zepto and BigBasket's BB Now.Flipkart really did not right away give a comment on the launch.ET first mentioned on July 15 Flipkart's plannings to run around 100 dark retail stores to charge up its quick-commerce offerings throughout the joyful time this year. Dark stores are little storehouses from where deliveries are made." Given the means the market place and consumer preferences have actually grown, the solution will initially be actually stabilised in certain wallets, and afterwards be scaled," ET had mentioned last month mentioning sources informed on Flipkart's strategy to scale the business.Last week Blinkit claimed it intends to expand its own dark outlet count to 2,000 through 2026, increasing down on its earlier revealed programs to possess 1,000 dark stores through March 2025. Zepto also plans to multiply its own network to 700 dark outlets by March 2025. Swiggy Instamart possesses more than five hundred such storage facilities, while Blinkit had 639 black shops at the end of June 2024. Industry executives assume high-octane activity coming from the ultra-fast delivery segment during this year's joyful season, which is generally known for expensive sales coming from Amazon India and Flipkart.
Published On Aug 6, 2024 at 08:01 AM IST.
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