{"id":943315,"date":"2025-07-03T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943315"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:33:31","slug":"the-dark-truth-behind-q-comms-10-minute-delivery-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/the-dark-truth-behind-q-comms-10-minute-delivery-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018dark\u2019 truth behind q-comm\u2019s 10-minute delivery promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: A dozen delivery workers lie on wooden benches in a cramped room, some on the floor, while their electric scooter batteries charge. A photograph from a Zepto dark store in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad, shows just this, exposing the ugly truth behind India\u2019s 10-minute grocery delivery promise. <\/p>\n<p>Dark stores seem to be living up to their name. Only 30-40% of dark stores across major platforms provide basic amenities like toilets, drinking water, or proper seating areas, according to Salauddin, national general secretary of the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers. Workers spend 10-12 hours daily at these facilities \u201cwith inadequate break or rest time, especially during peak demand hours,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: A dozen delivery workers lie on wooden benches in a cramped room, some on the floor, while their electric scooter batteries charge. A photograph from a Zepto dark store in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad, shows just this, exposing the ugly truth behind India\u2019s 10-minute grocery delivery promise. Dark stores seem to be living up to their name. Only 30-40% of dark stores across major platforms provide basic amenities like toilets, drinking water, or proper seating areas, according to Salauddin, national general secretary of the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers. Workers spend 10-12 hours daily at these facilities \u201cwith inadequate [&hellip;]<\/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-943315","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\/943315","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=943315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}