Boolanga Bites

Your Personal Navigator in the Ever-Evolving World of Food Delivery

Week 13/01/2025

?? What’s New at Boolanga?

?? Food Delivery

NRAI opposes private-label food delivery by Swiggy, Zomato; to take legal action against food delivery giants (Mint).

A fast-growing food delivery platform that just acquired Grubhub is coming to CT with two locations (Yahoo News).

?? Q-Commerce

Swiggy launches a 10-minute food delivery app. Snacc by Swiggy offers quick deliveries for food ranging from teatime beverages to noodles and Indian tiffin items (Tech in Asia).

Zomato joins the quick food delivery space with a 15-minute delivery service. Food delivery major Zomato has launched its own 15-minute food delivery service in select cities, amid heightening competition in the quick food delivery space (Money Control).

Blinkit launches 10-minute food delivery app 'Bistro' across Gurugram. Zomato-owned Blinkit has launched Bistro, a 10-minute food delivery app. The quick food delivery service is being rolled out across Gurugram as a pilot project (Business Standard).

Why restaurants across the country are up in arms against Swiggy, Zomato over 10-minute food delivery (Times of India).

Quick commerce 2.0: How Blinkit and BigBasket are racing beyond groceries into healthcare (Fortune India).

??E-Commerce

Walmart buys 77 pct stake in India's Flipkart for $16-B. US retail behemoth Walmart said Wednesday it will buy a 77 percent stake in Indian online sales giant Flipkart for $16 billion in the world's biggest e-commerce deal (ABS-CBN).

?? Delivery Tech

Crackdown on ‘ghost kitchens’ operating illegally. They are the secretive food delivery services that boomed during Covid – but now local councils and the food authority are busting ghost kitchens wide open (The Daily Telegraph)

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