{"id":1031343,"date":"2026-08-27T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031343"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:04:17","slug":"flipkart-minutes-overtakes-swiggy-instamart-in-dark-stores-across-top-10-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/flipkart-minutes-overtakes-swiggy-instamart-in-dark-stores-across-top-10-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipkart Minutes overtakes Swiggy Instamart in dark stores across top 10 cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flipkart Minutes has overtaken Swiggy Instamart in dark-store count across India&#8217;s top 10 quick-commerce cities, with 627 stores compared with Swiggy&#8217;s 615, as competition intensifies in the country&#8217;s fastest-growing delivery market, according to a CLSA report. <\/p>\n<p>The gap is narrow but significant, pointing to the rapid expansion of Flipkart&#8217;s quick-commerce business even as established players continue to deepen their networks. The 10 cities together account for 3,536 dark stores, according to CLSA&#8217;s Quick Commerce Map, with Blinkit leading at 969 stores, followed by Zepto at 828, Flipkart Minutes at 627, Swiggy Instamart at 615 and BigBasket at 497.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipkart Minutes has overtaken Swiggy Instamart in dark-store count across India&#8217;s top 10 quick-commerce cities, with 627 stores compared with Swiggy&#8217;s 615, as competition intensifies in the country&#8217;s fastest-growing delivery market, according to a CLSA report. The gap is narrow but significant, pointing to the rapid expansion of Flipkart&#8217;s quick-commerce business even as established players continue to deepen their networks. The 10 cities together account for 3,536 dark stores, according to CLSA&#8217;s Quick Commerce Map, with Blinkit leading at 969 stores, followed by Zepto at 828, Flipkart Minutes at 627, Swiggy Instamart at 615 and BigBasket at 497.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031343","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=1031343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031344,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031343\/revisions\/1031344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}