{"id":1025738,"date":"2026-08-03T08:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025738"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:29:44","slug":"bigbaskets-quick-commerce-gamble-tests-tata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/bigbaskets-quick-commerce-gamble-tests-tata\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigbasket\u2019s quick-commerce gamble tests Tata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BigBasket\u2019s delayed pivot to quick commerce is proving expensive as it struggles to gain relevance in India\u2019s fastest-growing instant delivery market. <\/p>\n<p>The Tata Digital-backed online grocer reported a 66% year-on-year jump in FY26 losses to Rs 3,073 crore, even as revenue rose just 7.7% to Rs 8,223 crore, according to Tata Sons\u2019 latest annual report. The widening gap between growth and profitability highlights the challenge before new chief executive Amit Nanda: improve unit economics while rebuilding market share in a business now dominated by Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BigBasket\u2019s delayed pivot to quick commerce is proving expensive as it struggles to gain relevance in India\u2019s fastest-growing instant delivery market. The Tata Digital-backed online grocer reported a 66% year-on-year jump in FY26 losses to Rs 3,073 crore, even as revenue rose just 7.7% to Rs 8,223 crore, according to Tata Sons\u2019 latest annual report. The widening gap between growth and profitability highlights the challenge before new chief executive Amit Nanda: improve unit economics while rebuilding market share in a business now dominated by Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025762,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025738\/revisions\/1025762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}