After iPhones, PC makers look to jump on quick commerce bandwagon

Platforms like Blinkit, Zepto, and Big Basket are already witnessing unprecedented demand for smartphones, particularly the Apple iPhone

Bengaluru-based Sunny Gupta had been searching for a laptop for months. In August, while sitting at a coffee shop, he decided to order an Acer Predator laptop — typically priced between Rs 95,000 and Rs 2.5 lakh — through the quick-commerce (q-com) platform Flipkart Minutes.

“It took exactly 13 minutes from payment to receiving it at the Starbucks I ordered it to,” he wrote in a now-viral post on social media platform X.

Now that q-com has become a staple for grocery deliveries in many urban households, companies in the space are expanding their offerings to include