Amazon, Flipkart and Myntra take quick commerce beyond grocery to mop up Diwali demand
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- ✓Amazon, Flipkart and Myntra are expanding quick commerce beyond groceries to capture Diwali demand.
- ✓Amazon’s Great Indian Festival and Myntra’s Big Fashion Festival start on October 8, while Flipkart’s Big Billion Days begins October 9.
- ✓These platforms now use micro-fulfilment centres to deliver electronics, fashion and home products in minutes.
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- India Economy
A month before Diwali, India's biggest e-commerce platforms are opening their festive shopping battle, seeking to capture consumer spending well ahead of the festival as rapid delivery spreads beyond groceries into home, electronics, and fashion. Amazon's Great Indian Festival and Myntra's Big Fashion Festival begin on October 8, followed by Flipkart's Big Billion Days on October 9.
The scale is expanding at the same speed. Flipkart Minutes will offer 77,000-plus products across 1,400-plus categories; Amazon is integrating Amazon Now into its Great Indian Festival for the first time, while Myntra's M-Now will put 1.5 lakh styles from 1,500 brands on rapid delivery. The moves increasingly blur the distinction between conventional e-commerce, built around vast selection, and quick commerce, built around immediacy.
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