India’s BigBsket has planned to roll 10 minutes of food distribution services across the country by the end of FY 2026 as the competition intensifies at $ 7.1 billion (about 60,722 crore rupees) in a fierce-commerce space, its executive on Tuesday told Reuters.
Tata-supported grocery giant will take installed players such as Swiggy’s snack, Bistro and Zepto Cafe of the Blinkit, which already distribute coffee and ready-to-eat snacks in less than 15 minutes.
Bigbasket The current food delivery is targeting customers of firms Zomato And Swiggy Unlocking a new pool of customers, co-founder Vipul Parekh told Reuters.
It plans to use dark stores to fuel the service, Parekh said, “India’s fast growing quick-commerce market, which is called the Sindhu Valley report of the Bloom Venture’s Sindhu Valley report” fastest growing industry segment “.”
Dark stores are small warehouses in densely populated neighborhood buildings, where delivery partners, usually two-wheelers riders, lift food for grocery or delivery.
Big Bobscate, which brought online grocery delivery service to India in 2011, is aimed at increasing the count of its dark store from around 700 to 1,000-1,200 by the end of 2025.
After a pilot run, which began in the southern city of Bangalore a month ago, the food delivery service will now be expanded to 40 dark stores by July-end.
Currently, about five percent – ten percent of the customers of BigBscates who are offered service are clubs with their normal online order, but it is expected to move forward, he said.
The menu will include items from coffee chain Starbucks and Indian Hotels Food Arm Cumin, which are both parts of the Tata group in India. The firm said that no external restaurant will be participated.
Meanwhile, Parekh dismissed Bigg Busket’s media reports and demanded and reiterated external investors to publicly go publicly within the next 18–24 months.
“One of the advantages we have is, being part of the Tata group, you have enough internal capital available.”
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