Rs 34 an hour? We did a “shocking” reality check for Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa

The past few months have been harsh on Quick Commerce. A few months ago, when Blinkit’s CEO Albinder Dhindsa told Bloomberg in an interview that the Quick Commerce bubble may burst soon, as the companies involved are running losses for a long time, no one really thought it would start unfolding soon.

Gig workers protest, government intervention on marketing it as ‘10-minute delivery’, and a shocking report revealing the future of gig workers in India later, an on-ground reporting exercise by The Indian Express, tracked three days of delivery work across these platforms in Delhi, offers a close look at how the economics of gig delivery play out in practice.