{"id":1033390,"date":"2026-09-05T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033390"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:32:20","slug":"quick-commerce-burns-cash-dmarts-slow-ecommerce-bet-may-deliver-where-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/05\/quick-commerce-burns-cash-dmarts-slow-ecommerce-bet-may-deliver-where-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Commerce burns cash. DMart\u2019s \u201cslow ecommerce\u201d bet may deliver where it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DMart has an online strategy that is significantly different from other competitors. This gives the company an edge in key metrics. While most of the quick commerce companies are looking to scale up their dark warehouses rapidly, DMart Ready is looking for profitability and sustainability. We should remember that the retail sector is never a sprint race and the fastest company to scale operations could actually end up behind in the long run. <\/p>\n<p>Eternal\u2019s Blinkit is operating in over 300 cities, Swiggy\u2019s Instamart is operating in close to 200 cities, while Zepto is also operating in more than 80 cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DMart has an online strategy that is significantly different from other competitors. This gives the company an edge in key metrics. While most of the quick commerce companies are looking to scale up their dark warehouses rapidly, DMart Ready is looking for profitability and sustainability. We should remember that the retail sector is never a sprint race and the fastest company to scale operations could actually end up behind in the long run. Eternal\u2019s Blinkit is operating in over 300 cities, Swiggy\u2019s Instamart is operating in close to 200 cities, while Zepto is also operating in more than 80 cities.<\/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-1033390","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\/1033390","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=1033390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033395,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033390\/revisions\/1033395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}