Amazon, Flipkart to have quick commerce play in certain categories: Delhivery CEO Sahil Barua

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ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon and Flipkart will have a play, Delhivery cofounder and chief executive Sahil Barua said on Friday.

“There’s a sub-segment of quick commerce which is yet to be evaluated. There’s a long distance between 15-minute delivery and same-day or next-day delivery. I think there will be a segment, which will emerge for certain kinds of products, which will be two-hour, four-hour deliveries. We already perform this in all the cities we are present in,” Barua said during the company’s post-earnings analyst call.

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Walmart-owned Flipkart is set to foray into quick deliveries in July. ET had exclusively reported that Flipkart held discussions to acquire Nexus Venture Partners-backed quick commerce firm Zepto, but the talks were unsuccessful.

Quick commerce platforms like Zepto, Blinkit and Swiggy Instamart are adding multiple categories such as fashion, electronics, home appliances and luggage, which are conventionally serviced by ecommerce players. ET has reported that these platforms are witnessing robust sales growth in non-food categories.

“I anticipate that for certain categories within ecommerce that are more amenable to quick commerce, which are structured categories like mobile phones, for example, or