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Quick-commerce unit economics depend on a single variable: order density within a delivery zone.
A dark store, the small urban fulfillment node the model runs on, carries fixed overhead whether it dispatches twenty orders in a slot or two hundred.
The per-drop cost only falls to workable levels when enough orders share the same zone in the same window.
Flipkart, Walmart's Indian e-commerce subsidiary, is now logging between 1.1 million and 1.2 million orders a day on its quick-commerce platform. That volume is nearly triple what the service was handling in November.
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