Walmart’s Flipkart Minutes Hits 1.2 Million Daily Orders in India’s Cutthroat Delivery War

Walmart $WMT quick-commerce service Flipkart Minutes clears 1.2 million daily orders. Daily order volume surged from roughly 400,000 in November to 1.2 million, rapidly closing the gap with Swiggy's 1.4 million. The company expanded its micro-fulfillment infrastructure from 340 dark stores last year to over 1,000 active facilities today. Customers spend an average of $4.20 to $5.20 per transaction, with repeat buyers driving roughly 70% of monthly purchases. Average delivery times dropped to 11 minutes as the network scales toward a 1,500-store target they're aiming for. Amazon is aggressively defending the core e-commerce turf it built its foundation on, launching a parallel plan to deploy 1,000 instant-delivery warehouses. "Flipkart is already a serious player. Once you open 1,000 dark stores and [are] doing a million orders per day, it's serious enough." — Satish Meena Venture-backed startups bled billions to train consumers on ten-minute delivery, only for legacy conglomerates to swoop in and buy the market with infinite balance sheets.