After receiving board approval to be classified as an Indian-owned and controlled company (IOCC), Blinkit can now own inventory without flouting foreign direct investment (FDI) norms.
Mansi M shared CCTV footage of the alleged assault and called on Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal and Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa to intervene and investigate the matter. The family has also lodged a formal complaint, which the police have since converted into a First Information Report (FIR).
The announcement, made via a social media post, detailed Blinkit’s aim to address the urgent need for reliable and rapid ambulance services in urban areas. Albinder Dhindsa wrote, 'We are taking our first step towards solving the problem of providing quick and reliable ambulance service in our cities.'
CEO Albinder Dhindsa said that Blinkit recorded its highest-ever orders in a day, highest orders per minute and per hour, as well as highest total tips given to delivery partners in a day.
'The average picking time at this store is 1 minute 46 seconds (sorry for the delay and happy new year to whoever's order this was),' Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa said.
Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce the platform's unprecedented success. “We crossed all-time high orders in a day on Blinkit in a matter of minutes,” Dhindsa stated. Meanwhile, Swiggy Instamart saw the highest spend on its app this Raksha Bandhan.
Sneha's thread, which quickly gained traction, described her day delivering orders in the Indiranagar area. 'Signed up to be a Blinkit delivery partner and delivered a few orders around Indiranagar today. And it was amazing, earned some money, talked to a few riders. Got to know how the whole system works,' she wrote.
The spotlight of the roast was on comedian Swati Sachdeva, who humorously critiqued Zomato's rising extraneous charges, including the recent hike in its platform fee from Rs 5 to Rs 6 and the reduction of the free delivery radius from 10 km to 7 km.
'Mom got a mini heart attack because she had to pay for dhaniya on Blinkit,' the customer named Ankit Sawant wrote on X. Tagging Albinder Dhindsa, CEO of Blinkit, Sawant added, 'Mom is suggesting that you should bundle it for free with certain amount of veggies.'
An X (formerly Twitter) user took to the social media platform to share how a job applicant had sent his CV and cover letter for a PM role via Blinkit.
Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa reacted to a viral video of a delivery agent singing 'Uska Hi Banana' on guitar at a customer's house.
Blinkit took to X to share a screenshot of a conversation that happened between a customer and the customer support executive. The conversation featured the user's rather unusual demand and it earned a reaction from CEO Albinder Dhindsa as well.
According to Tanay Srivastava, his mother’s gujiya mould had broken and he couldn’t get out and get one immediately. He turned to Blinkit, an online grocery and quick-commerce service, and ordered one gujiya mould for his mother. To his pleasant surprise, he got his order delivered in a record three minutes.
While some social media users were entertained by the exchange, a few claimed the interaction was staged, especially because of the time stamps of the messages.
According to Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa, the quick commerce company had already delivered more roses by 11 am on Rose Day 2024 than it did all day in 2023.
Blinkit shared a conversation between a customer and a executive on New Year's Eve, which found a reaction from CEO Albinder Dhindsa.
Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa tweeted that Blinkit had organised a drawing competition in a few schools of Gurgaon and the winning entry from the competition has now been printed on the platform’s delivery bags
Going by the kind of sale Blinkit was making, Albinder Dhindsa said gold and silver coins make for a perfect Diwali gift.
Blinkit founder Albinder Dhindsa has revealed that the sale of Band-Aids increased significantly on August 15, Independence Day.
Blinkit also sold more than 10,000 single roses and delivered 1,200 bouquets by 10 am. Founder Albinder Dhindsa called it a 'Good start to Valentine's day'.
According to Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa, Blinkit had delivered more than 10,000 single roses by 10 am on February 14
The company, which was acquired by online food delivery firm Zomato last year, currently has over 400 dark stores that act as warehouses.
Blinkit founddr Albinder Dhindsa said the company expects advertisement revenue "to be a significant driver for increase in revenue per order going forward".
Ashneer Grover added that Albinder Dhindsa, founder and CEO of Blinkit, also got himself a Range Rover after a couple of round of funding.
Questions still remain about how Zomato, a company that registered losses of Rs 1,223 crore in FY22, plans to derive value from acquiring another loss-making delivery startup