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Blinkit Delivery Partners Continue Strike In Delhi-NCR

The Zomato-owned quick-commerce platform’s service, Blinkit, has been impacted by a protest organised by delivery partners in the cities of Delhi, Noida, Gurugram, and Faridabad over changes to the compensation structure. “Temporarily unavailable,” reads the Zomato’s grocery unit app. More than half of the 200 dark stores run by the Zomato-owned quick commerce platform have been closed for the past four days. It is anticipated more numbers will go offline in the coming days as a result of the delivery workers’ strike.

The development coincides with Blinkit’s introduction of a new pay structure for delivery partners on Monday, which required the partners to schedule their time slots and meet the goals set for them. The delivery partners would be compensated for each mile. They assert that this would, however, lower their income. View the topic’s top 10 developments.

Videos of hundreds of Blinkit bike riders protesting and against the introduction of the payment structure have surfaced online and created quite a buzz on social media.

Tweets Related To The Protest

 

While acknowledging the matter, BJP leader Kapil Mishra tweeted, “Blinkit management must implement old payment immediately. Reduction from Rs 25 per delivery to Rs 10-15 is cheating with the employees.”

Take a look: https://twitter.com/KapilMishra_IND/status/1646841899226132480?s=20 

Here’s a video of the Blinkit Strike that has been trending online on social media: https://twitter.com/ake_union/status/1646793300073132032?s=20

Meanwhile, other food delivery services of Zomato are functioning normally.

Zomato last year acquired Blinkit for $550 million in order to capitalise on the trend for “quick commerce,” which delivers things within minutes to customers who are in urgent need of supplies or simply shopping on impulse.

The top retailer Reliance-backed Dunzo, Tata’s BigBasket, and SoftBank-backed Swiggy are competitors of Blinkit.

It isn’t the first time that workers of a delivery platform are going on strike. Prior to this, Swiggy, a significant competitor of Zomato, also had an uprising by delivery staff in places including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Chennai in response to the introduction of a changed compensation structure. Delivery executives were also asking for the new fee system to be withdrawn at that time.

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