{"id":985905,"date":"2026-01-16T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985905"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:26:32","slug":"rs-34-an-hour-we-did-a-shocking-reality-check-for-blinkit-ceo-albinder-dhindsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/rs-34-an-hour-we-did-a-shocking-reality-check-for-blinkit-ceo-albinder-dhindsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 34 an hour? We did a \u201cshocking\u201d reality check for Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few months have been harsh on Quick Commerce. A few months ago, when Blinkit\u2019s CEO Albinder Dhindsa told Bloomberg in an interview that the Quick Commerce bubble may burst soon, as the companies involved are running losses for a long time, no one really thought it would start unfolding soon. <\/p>\n<p>Gig workers protest, government intervention on marketing it as \u201810-minute delivery\u2019, and a shocking report revealing the future of gig workers in India later, an on-ground reporting exercise by The Indian Express,  tracked three days of delivery work across these platforms in Delhi, offers a close look at how the economics of gig delivery play out in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few months have been harsh on Quick Commerce. A few months ago, when Blinkit\u2019s CEO Albinder Dhindsa told Bloomberg in an interview that the Quick Commerce bubble may burst soon, as the companies involved are running losses for a long time, no one really thought it would start unfolding soon. Gig workers protest, government intervention on marketing it as \u201810-minute delivery\u2019, and a shocking report revealing the future of gig workers in India later, an on-ground reporting exercise by The Indian Express, tracked three days of delivery work across these platforms in Delhi, offers a close look at [&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-985905","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\/985905","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=985905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}