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Amazon expands 10 min quick delivery service ‘Amazon Now’ to Gurugram

EntrackrEntrackr · 3h ago
Amazon expands 10 min quick delivery service ‘Amazon Now’ to Gurugram
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Amazon expands 10 min quick delivery service ‘Amazon Now’ to Gurugram E-commerce major Amazon India has expanded its ultra-fast delivery service, Amazon Now, to Gurugram, further expanding its quick commerce footprint across large Indian cities. Amazon Now enables delivery of daily essentials within 10 minutes through a network of micro fulfilment centres located close to customer neighbourhoods. The service is available through the main Amazon app for select pin codes. The company first piloted the 10-minute delivery service in Bengaluru in December last year. During the pilot, Amazon offered a limited assortment of everyday products, including groceries, personal care items, and small household essentials. Following the Bengaluru pilot, Amazon expanded the service to Delhi, where it rolled out Amazon Now across select locations in the city. In September, Amazon further extended Amazon Now to Mumbai. At the time, the company said it had set up more than 100 micro fulfilment centres across Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai to support the 10-minute delivery promise. Amazon recently said that it is opening two micro fulfilment centres every day to enable 10-minute deliveries across more neighbourhoods in Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai. According to the company, the aggressive expansion expects to take Amazon Now’s footprint to over 300 centres by the end of the year, from around 100 during the festive season. In a recent social media post, Amazon India head Amit Agarwal said the company had piloted the quick delivery service from micro fulfilment centres in Haryana, where teams are able to pick, pack, and deliver everyday essentials within minutes. The move coincides with heightened activity in the quick commerce segment, with players such as Zepto, Blinkit, and Instamart stepping up their expansion efforts. Amazon’s rival Flipkart entered the space earlier with the launch of its quick delivery service, Minutes, in Gurugram and other parts of the NCR region late last year.

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Zomato halts 15-min food delivery service 'Quick' just four months after launch

EntrackrEntrackr · 7m ago
Zomato halts 15-min food delivery service 'Quick' just four months after launch
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Food tech giant Zomato has reportedly removed its 15-minute food delivery tab, Quick, from its main app just four months after its launch, hinting at a possible strategic reset in its approach to ultra-fast meal deliveries. Moneycontrol was the first to report this development. The feature, also available as part of Zomato Everyday, was advertised on the landing page of the main app but is now unavailable in several cities such as Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and more. It is also possible that the company will not entirely phase out the feature and may release another version later. The service offered ready-to-eat dishes from select restaurants located within a two-kilometre radius. However, the option is no longer visible. Zomato Quick accounted for nearly 8% of the total order volume on the app around March. This was Zomato’s second attempt to crack the quick food delivery market under its main app. Its earlier effort – Zomato Instant, launched in 2022 – promised 10-minute deliveries in Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR but was shut down by January 2023. It was later replaced by Zomato Everyday, a home-style meal service with similar delivery timelines. While Zomato no longer offers a quick food delivery option on its main app, it has launched Bistro by Blinkit – a separate service offering fast-moving, ready-to-eat dishes made in Blinkit's network of dark stores. The app focuses on snacks, small meals, and bakery items that can be dispatched rapidly, blending Blinkit’s quick-commerce infrastructure with Zomato’s food delivery know-how. Zomato appears to be shifting its quick-food plans away from its core app and into a more focused play powered by Blinkit's dark store network. The company may be looking to separate rapid-fire snacking from full-fledged restaurant orders. The move comes at a time when the 15-minute food delivery space is flooded with new entrants, such as Zepto, which led the category with Zepto Café in 2022 and now fulfills over 100,000 daily orders through its standalone app – translating to a $100 million annualised GMV.

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