{"id":988863,"date":"2026-01-30T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988863"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:40:36","slug":"instamart-losses-widen-despite-margin-gains-echoes-rivals-competitive-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/instamart-losses-widen-despite-margin-gains-echoes-rivals-competitive-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Instamart losses widen despite margin gains, echoes rival\u2019s competitive warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiggy\u2019s quick commerce arm Instamart posted an adjusted Ebitda loss of Rs 791 crore in Q3FY26, up from Rs 528 crore a year earlier, even as contribution margin improved 208 basis points year-on-year to negative 2.5% of gross order value (GOV). The widening losses reflect continued investments in network expansion and competitive spending that have overshadowed gains from better unit economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiggy\u2019s quick commerce arm Instamart posted an adjusted Ebitda loss of Rs 791 crore in Q3FY26, up from Rs 528 crore a year earlier, even as contribution margin improved 208 basis points year-on-year to negative 2.5% of gross order value (GOV). The widening losses reflect continued investments in network expansion and competitive spending that have overshadowed gains from better unit economics.<\/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-988863","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\/988863","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=988863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}