{"id":951339,"date":"2025-07-31T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951339"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:32:48","slug":"q-comm-expansion-drives-up-dark-store-rents-in-top-city-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/q-comm-expansion-drives-up-dark-store-rents-in-top-city-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Q-comm expansion drives up dark store rents in top city markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As quick commerce companies push ahead with ambitious expansion plans, demand for dark store locations in major cities is intensifying, thus pushing rental costs sharply higher \u2013 by around 35% \u2013 in some areas. <\/p>\n<p>Companies opening dark stores <\/p>\n<p>Companies such as Blinkit, Zepto, Flipkart\u2019s Minutes, and Swiggy Instamart are opening hundreds of new dark stores across the country this year. But the bulk of their expansion is concentrated in a handful of high-demand urban markets, where customer adoption of rapid grocery delivery has been strongest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As quick commerce companies push ahead with ambitious expansion plans, demand for dark store locations in major cities is intensifying, thus pushing rental costs sharply higher \u2013 by around 35% \u2013 in some areas. Companies opening dark stores Companies such as Blinkit, Zepto, Flipkart\u2019s Minutes, and Swiggy Instamart are opening hundreds of new dark stores across the country this year. But the bulk of their expansion is concentrated in a handful of high-demand urban markets, where customer adoption of rapid grocery delivery has been strongest.<\/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-951339","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\/951339","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=951339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}