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What is quick commerce?

हिंदी में पढ़ें: क्विक कॉमर्स क्या है?

Groceries and more, delivered in minutes from small stores close to you.

Quick commerce is the kind of online shopping where an order reaches you in minutes rather than days. The apps keep a few thousand of the things people buy most in small stores spread across a city, often called dark stores because they are closed to walk-in shoppers. Each store delivers to the homes a few kilometres around it, so a rider has only a short way to go.

It began with groceries and daily needs. Now there are apps for 10-minute food, fashion, beauty and pet supplies too. In India we count 11,844 quick commerce stores on 14 apps, in 544 towns.

How an order works

  • The app checks your address and hands the order to the nearest store that serves it.
  • A picker in the store collects and packs it in a couple of minutes.
  • A rider takes it the last few kilometres.

That is why the same app can deliver on one street and not the next, and why it matters which apps have a store near you. Check your pincode.

The apps

Groceries

10-minute food

Fashion

Beauty

Pet supplies

Who owns which app

Where the stores are

Every store on our list is on QuickCommerceMap, our map of quick commerce in India.

Questions people ask

Quick commerce kya hai?

Quick commerce matlab kuch hi minute mein ghar par saaman pahunchana: groceries, doodh, snacks, aur ab kapde, beauty aur pet ka saaman bhi. Apps aapke paas ke chhote godaam (dark store) se order pack karke bhejte hain. Blinkit, Zepto aur Swiggy Instamart sabse bade apps hain.

What is the difference between quick commerce and e-commerce?

E-commerce ships from big warehouses and takes a day or more. Quick commerce keeps a smaller range in many small stores inside the city, each serving a few kilometres around it, so orders arrive in minutes.

Which are the quick commerce companies in India?

Blinkit (Eternal, formerly Zomato), Zepto (Zepto Ltd), Swiggy Instamart (Swiggy), Flipkart Minutes (Flipkart, part of Walmart), BigBasket (Tata Digital), Amazon Now (Amazon) and JioMart (Reliance Retail), plus apps for food, fashion, beauty and pets.

Why does Google Pay say "quick commerce"?

Google Pay sorts payments into categories on its own, from what it knows about the business you paid. A payment to one of these apps can land in a category it calls quick commerce. You can change a payment’s category from its details in Google Pay.