Blinkit Sort Story-

The two friends built a grocery delivery app valued at $13 billion called Blinkit, which was acquired by Zomato in 2022 to enter the quick commerce industry, which is now valued more than Zomato’s own food delivery business.

By the way, Blinkit was earlier called Gofirst, before we get into the story of Gofirst, let me tell you when Albinder Dhindsa and Saurabh Kumar saw a gap in the grocery delivery industry.

The idea was simple to deliver groceries from nearby partner stores to their customers.

But when rebranding Gofirst as Blinkit, Albinder Dhindsa and Sa Albinder Dhindsa and Saurabh Kumar took an ambitious bet of delivering groceries in just under 10 minutes when they rebranded Gofirst as Blinkit. urabh Kumar took an ambitious bet of delivering groceries in just under 10 minutes.

To provide such prompt delivery, Blinkit has taken the help of dark stores, which are large stores of 2500 to 4000 sq. ft. located approximately 3 kms away from the selected locations in the city and these dark stores are supplied by a mother warehouse which is located on the outskirts of the city.

Blinkit today has the largest number of dark stores compared to its competitor, which leads with 451 dark stores across 27 cities and has a market share of 46%.

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