

What grocery platforms have been doing is that they offer a spectrum of services with same-day to next-day deliveries, with some platforms offering two-day deliveries also. It’s a very competitive and hard space to compete at these parameters. “Very few orders for JioMart Express came for Dunzo,” a person aware of the matter said. JioMart had plans to utilise Dunzo’s delivery fleet for Express. ET reported in January that Reliance Retail may end up writing a relatively smaller cheque in the new funding round being planned at Dunzo, which fired around 3% of its staff last month and undertook significant changes to rein in spiralling operating costs last year. Reliance Retail also is the single largest investor in quick commerce startup Dunzo.
