Flipkart Minutes Set to Open 800 Dark Stores by 2025-End

FLIPKART MINUTES, the quick commerce arm of e-commerce major Flipkart, is aiming to open 800 dark stores by the end of 2025, the company's group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said on Wednesday.

- RAGHAV AGGARWAL

"We launched this product around nine months back," he said at Walmart's annual Investment Community Meeting. "We launched with just about 100 stores, and we are already close to 300 stores now."

The quick commerce companies in the country have been rapidly expanding their dark store network, even if it means burning more cash than earlier.

Zomato-owned Blinkit had around 1,007 stores at the end of December 2023. Swiggy Instamart operated around 705. While Swiggy Instamart decided to take its dark store count to 1,000 by March, Blinkit aims to double it to 2,000 by December.