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Price wars: UBS cuts Eternal, Swiggy share price targets; expects rising discounts to weigh on margins
UBS reports that the intensifying discount wars in India's quick commerce sector are delaying margin recovery. Discounts have risen significantly since Sep 2025, with Amazon and Zepto leading in promotions. UBS cuts price targets for Eternal and Swiggy while maintaining positive growth expectations.
2 min read15 Jan 2026Quick commerce firms to rethink 10-minute delivery after govt intervention, gig workers' strike: Report
Quick commerce firms such as Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy, among others, are likely to reconsider their 10-minute delivery strategy after Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya directed major delivery aggregators to remove the quick delivery mandate. Here's what we know so far.
3 min read13 Jan 2026Swiggy expands Noice beyond staples, testing limits of private labels in quick commerce
Swiggy is rapidly scaling its in-house brand Noice from 200 to 350 SKUs, and hiring top-tier talent from Flipkart and Oyo to transform the label into a standalone consumer brand.
5 min read12 Jan 2026Bengaluru couple stranded with toddler on roadside get help from kind delivery person; netizens react | Watch
Out for a routine day at work, the delivery agent saw the couple stranded on the road without fuel and stopped to help.
1 min read9 Jan 2026From streets to screens: How India’s gig economy finds income, and fame, online
Social media has emerged as a parallel income stream, an extension of their primary gig, because it lowers entry barriers and rewards visibility.
5 min read9 Jan 2026How much does a gig worker really earn? It's not quite what Deepinder Goyal would have us believe
The earnings of a gig worker are shaped less by fixed wages and more by a constantly shifting balance of supply and demand.
9 min read7 Jan 2026Mint Explainer | Can gig workers form traditional trade unions?
While India has many groups representing workers of food delivery, quick commerce, and app-based taxi aggregators, they are not registered trade unions. However, coming changes in Indian labour laws lend similar legitimacy to these rules.
4 min read5 Jan 2026India’s gig debate misses a key point: Better wages for delivery agents will aid the economy without hurting platforms
Strikes by delivery riders have reignited a noisy debate over wages, exploitation and entrepreneurship. But better pay won’t ruin the gig model used by Zomato, Swiggy, Zepto and others. In combination with adherence to Labour Codes, it could help solve a larger economic problem.
2 min read5 Jan 2026Spotted: Swiggy's performance art as ad
In the last couple of decades, installations of performance art have entered the mainstream, including museums. How well do they work as an advertisement?
2 min read5 Jan 2026Deepinder Goyal rejects ‘exploitation’ of gig workers amid row: '10-min delivery enabled by density of orders'
Deepinder Goyal said that delivery partners are not assigned strict deadlines, and quick deliveries are achieved through a high density of nearby stores, not by forcing riders to speed. He noted that Delhi NCR alone has over 400 Blinkit stores.
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