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The service is launching initially across 20 high-demand stores ahead of the holiday shopping period, making Target the first fashion retailer in Australia on the app.
The US retail group will spend $1 billion by 2027 to expand its Amazon Now network to 1,300 local fulfillment hubs across Indian cities.
About 75 per cent of the gig workers filed their income tax returns for the first time through an in-app chatbot service.
Flipkart’s quick commerce arm has expanded to over 1,000 micro-warehouses across 130 cities, narrowing its average order value gap with market leader Blinkit.
Alibaba and Meituan now hold 45.7 per cent and 45.3 per cent of the fast-delivery market after cutting costly meal discounts.
Datum Intelligence data shows Instamart held a 22 percent share of India’s quick-commerce market in 2025, behind Blinkit and Zepto.
Indian mother and baby retailer FirstCry is expanding its two-to-three-hour delivery service to 12 cities after posting 17.7 per cent multichannel revenue growth.
Blinkit leads India’s quick commerce sector with 969 dark stores across key urban centres, while Flipkart Minutes overtakes Swiggy Instamart in the top ten metros.
Indonesian minimart operator Sumber Alfaria Trijaya is deploying dark stores and expanding into South Asia to counter domestic store saturation.
Data from fintech platform Kiwi shows instant delivery apps take 2.6 per cent of young consumers’ wallets compared to 0.85 per cent spent at supermarket chains like D-Mart.
Rapid fulfillment reshapes grocery baskets across Asia while North American adoption languishes at just 3 per cent.
Prime subscribers who use the Amazon Now rapid delivery service shop three times more often across apparel categories.
Total revenue rose 8.6 per cent to $956.1 million as peak summer grocery orders pushed gross merchandise value to $1.07 billion.
UBS raised its total addressable market forecast for the country’s quick-commerce sector to $59 billion by FY30 as operations spread across 100 towns.
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