{"id":907557,"date":"2025-02-20T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=907557"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T04:30:07","slug":"ettech-qa-replicating-blinkits-quick-commerce-moves-wont-ensure-success-ceo-albinder-dhindsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/20\/ettech-qa-replicating-blinkits-quick-commerce-moves-wont-ensure-success-ceo-albinder-dhindsa\/","title":{"rendered":"ETtech Q&amp;A | Replicating Blinkit\u2019s quick commerce moves won\u2019t ensure success: CEO Albinder Dhindsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest quick commerce platform, Zomato-owned Blinkit, came close to breaking even in the July-September quarter of this fiscal year before its cash burn increased amid heightened competition in the sector. While the pressure to keep up with younger entrants remains, the Gurugram-based company\u2019s founder and CEO Albinder Dhindsa tells ET\u2019s Pranav Mukul and Samidha Sharma, there is a misconception that if Blinkit can be profitable, its heavily loss-making rivals can get there too. Dhindsa also speaks about how prioritising only market share won\u2019t be a sustainable approach, in addition to the reason why Blinkit raised fresh capital and the rationale behind entering 10-minute food delivery. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest quick commerce platform, Zomato-owned Blinkit, came close to breaking even in the July-September quarter of this fiscal year before its cash burn increased amid heightened competition in the sector. While the pressure to keep up with younger entrants remains, the Gurugram-based company\u2019s founder and CEO Albinder Dhindsa tells ET\u2019s Pranav Mukul and Samidha Sharma, there is a misconception that if Blinkit can be profitable, its heavily loss-making rivals can get there too. Dhindsa also speaks about how prioritising only market share won\u2019t be a sustainable approach, in addition to the reason why Blinkit raised fresh capital and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-907557","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\/907557","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}