Mapping India’s Hidden 10-Minute Grocery Warehouses
If you order groceries in India and they arrive in 10 minutes, there’s a dark store within 2–3 kilometres of your house. These are small, windowless warehouses — no walk-in customers, no signage, just pickers and riders. Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart collectively operate thousands of them across the country. I wanted the coordinates of every single one. Why? Partly curiosity about the infrastructure density of India’s Q-Commerce boom, partly a practical engineering challenge I wanted to document. […]