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22 ARTICLES
Restaurants desperately seek a third alternative in food delivery
Long plagued by Zomato and Swiggy’s machinations, restaurateurs are now saddled with charges for unsolicited ads and promotional discounts. Can ONDC help them break the duopoly?
08 Jun 2025
Can Bolt become Swiggy’s trump card?
As food delivery plateaus and Instamart bleeds cash, Swiggy is banking on its 10-minute service to revive growth and rewrite its economics.
11 May 2025
Can Pyng help Swiggy break out of a rut?
An online marketplace for professionals is the company’s yet another attempt at building something of value, besides food delivery and quick commerce. There’s no telling whether it will work.
18 Apr 2025
Retailers hustle to battle quick commerce and consumption slump
From DMart to Shoppers Stop, Spencer’s to Reliance Retail almost every big retailer is looking to offer faster home deliveries to jump-start their flagging footfall. But can they unseat the startups?
04 Mar 2025
Swiggy is on the defensive
Quick-commerce burn is Swiggy’s Achilles heel. It is unlikely the company can burn its way through to market leadership or defend its share. Unless Blinkit or Zepto make a mistake.
05 Feb 2025
Is Dineout Swiggy’s next big thing?
Acquired in desperation, the restaurant discovery and table reservation platform has largely been a forgotten enterprise inside Swiggy. That may be about to change.
02 Jan 2025
Swiggy’s Instamart has to choose either growth or profitability; it can’t have both
CEO Sriharsha Majety and the market seem to think scaling is Instamart's salvation. Scale, however, may not be the panacea everyone thinks it is.
08 Dec 2024
Talabat and Swiggy: Two food delivery IPOs that couldn’t be more different
Apart from pulling off successful public offers at a somewhat similar valuation, the two startups have little in common.
01 Dec 2024
Can India’s kirana stores survive the quick-commerce disruption?
India’s neighbourhood shops withstood organized retail and e-commerce, but quick commerce’s speed and shifting consumer behaviour might finally break their resilience.
10 Nov 2024
Why quick commerce is working only in India
From tea leaves to iPhones, the country’s quick-commerce platforms are reshaping urban retail while proving sceptics wrong about their viability.
29 Oct 2024