Quick Commerce (Q-Commerce)
1. What is Quick Commerce?
Q-commerce or Quick e-commerce is the emerging part of online commerce wherein ultra-fast delivery is key — usually well under 10 minutes to half an hour mostly for top-earners like groceries, snacks, household items. This floor plan works on hyperlocal fulfillment centers and precise logistics/ inventory management to fulfil more and more consumer demand for same-day deliveries.
2. Quick Commerce Features?
- Postal: up to 10–30 minutes, e-commerce cannot rival the speed of deliverys from order- placement to your hand / if.
- Hyperlocal Touchpoints: in micro warehouses or dark stores near urban customers, so goods can be moved real-time.
- Products: concentrated around urgent need/critical household basic, eg groceries, personal care and FMCG instead of extended sortition like in the broad market of most traditional e-commerce.
- Technology-powered: powered by route optimisation, real-time tracking and mobile application to give an omni-channel experience.
- Shopper behavior: Modern urban consumers, in particular, are getting more and more accustomed and eager for this level of accessibility, immediacy.
3. Market Impact and Trends:
- Quick commerce is turning consumer perceptions upside down and creating a new standard of awareness — no longer slow traditional delivery days.
- Quick commerce (Amazon, Flipkart, BigBasket) is the next level of e-commerce, it is becoming more integrated as biggcommerce players like do some of quick commerce apps (express delivery and local fulfillments)
- Quick commerce market, worldwide is expected to reach nearly USD seven billion by 2025 with huge growth attributed to urbanization and lifestyle shift.
- More and operational efficiency are being required, companies start investing in eco-packaging and other inclusive logistics.
