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As riders go home amid lockdown, queue for e-grocery orders get longer

Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.

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2 min read Last Updated : Apr 03 2020 | 8:28 PM IST

When the lockdown was announced, Feroze, who worked as a food delivery agent with Swiggy in Bengaluru, panicked and rushed home to Davangere, five hours away. Now he wants to return. “I have no income; I am exhausting my savings. If I get a pass somehow, I will go back to work,” says Feroze, who earned Rs 28,000-30,000 a month at the start-up.

Though food delivery orders have reduced on the platform, grocery orders have picked up, says another Swiggy rider who had just completed his 18th delivery of the day.

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