{"id":846022,"date":"2024-08-20T07:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=846022"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:29:22","slug":"category-expansion-for-q-commerce-firms-may-be-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/20\/category-expansion-for-q-commerce-firms-may-be-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Category expansion for q-commerce firms may be slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supply chain issues and inventory management pose a significant challenge to category expansion, beyond food, groceries and home essentials, by QuickCommerce players. <\/p>\n<p>Vipul Parekh, co-founder and chief marketing officer, BigBasket told Fe recently, expansion is not be easy and may take time. Managing inventory and returns, Parekh noted, could be one of the biggest challenges. \u201cOne needs to have an optimum size of dark stores. You can\u2019t carry 100,000 SKUs (stock-keeping units) in 6,000 square feet dark stores,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply chain issues and inventory management pose a significant challenge to category expansion, beyond food, groceries and home essentials, by QuickCommerce players. Vipul Parekh, co-founder and chief marketing officer, BigBasket told Fe recently, expansion is not be easy and may take time. Managing inventory and returns, Parekh noted, could be one of the biggest challenges. \u201cOne needs to have an optimum size of dark stores. You can\u2019t carry 100,000 SKUs (stock-keeping units) in 6,000 square feet dark stores,\u201d he explained.<\/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-846022","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\/846022","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=846022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}