Key Points
Zomato-owned quick-commerce platform Blinkit shut down nearly 100 dark stores across Delhi-NCR in the past few days...
The closure of some Blinkit dark stores comes days after a strike was announced by its delivery executives, who demanded the company to reinstate their payout structure after a sudden reduction...
Today, hundreds of Blinkit delivery executives met the Gurugram labour commissioner and demanded the minimum payout per delivery to be reinstated to at least Rs 25...
Therefore, what happened in the online food delivery space a few years ago is repeating in the quick commerce space as more companies take harsh measures to boost revenue and profitability...
While Blinkit has addressed the issue, saying that the strike is almost over and most dark stores have become operational again in Delhi-NCR, the episode is a wakeup call for quick commerce platforms who rely on a vast network of gig workers to deliver orders from neighbourhood dark stores to customers...
