Flipkart Minutes plans to double dark stores by Apr

Flipkart Minutes, the quick-commerce (q-com) arm of e-commerce major Flipkart, plans to double its dark-store numbers to 1,000 by March-April next year, up from a little over 500 currently.

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The company also intends to expand its presence from over 30 cities at present to more than 60, said Hemant Badri, senior vice president and head of minutes, Supply Chain, Customer Experience, and ReCommerce at Flipkart Group.

‘To meet the 1,000-store target, the platform aims to open three to four new dark stores each day over the next four months. “We said we will have 800 stores by March. We have already crossed 500 and possibly by March-April, we would be in around 1,000 stores. We are already in 30 cities, and would at least double the footprint by that point in time. We will expand cities, and we will expand those bases. We want to be opening anywhere between 3-4 stores on average for the next possibly 120 days,” Badri said, speaking with Business Standard.