App-based delivery services transforming convenience with 'quick commerce'
Synopsis
The rapid evolution of app-based delivery services has introduced a new era of convenience, with 'quick commerce' delivering items faster than ever before. These services are no longer limited to food but also function as quick couriers for a variety of goods. In a unique case, a job-seeker in Bengaluru used a delivery service to send his CV and cover letter, showcasing the innovative potential of these platforms. With such innovations, the possibilities for app-based services seem endless, promising seamless experiences and faster deliveries for consumers.
By ET Bureau
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These days, there's an innovation popping up faster than you can say 'Pehle app'. Take app-based delivery services. After we all fell in love with their convenience, they raised the stakes with 'quick commerce'. Suddenly, items are arriving at our doorstep before we've even had a chance to recheck what we ordered. And it's not just food.
With the ever-evolving landscape of app-based services, there's no telling what ingenious strategies or revenue streams will emerge next from this resume-delivery case study. Will they tie up with, say, resume services and job portals to create a seamless experience for job seekers?
Or tie up with brick-and-mortar retail shops to deliver a bunch of, say, saris that are not available online? As long as there is desire, we can expect new objets de desir to be delivered - not in, say, six days, but in a few minutes or hours the same day.
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Delivery services also double as quick couriers, zipping across the city to deliver all kinds of stuff. Clients of app-based services are taking a leaf out of the app book. In Bengaluru, a job-seeker, instead of sending off his CV and cover letter by email - which would have been faster - sent them by Blinkit. Word spread on X like super delivery agents, and it looks like this candidate has bypassed not just email piles but other candidates for thinking outside the box.With the ever-evolving landscape of app-based services, there's no telling what ingenious strategies or revenue streams will emerge next from this resume-delivery case study. Will they tie up with, say, resume services and job portals to create a seamless experience for job seekers?
Or tie up with brick-and-mortar retail shops to deliver a bunch of, say, saris that are not available online? As long as there is desire, we can expect new objets de desir to be delivered - not in, say, six days, but in a few minutes or hours the same day.