Rapido partners Big Basket, Big Bazaar & Spencer's for essential deliveries across 90 cities
Rapido has tied up with Big Basket, Big Bazaar and Spencer's Retail to power last-mile essential supply deliveries in 90 Indian cities during the COVID-19 lockdown, deploying up to 70 percent of its fleet. Talks are underway with Grofers, Dunzo and FreshtoHome to widen the network.
What happened
Rapido bike taxi partnered with Big Basket, Big Bazaar and Spencer's Retail to enable last-mile essential deliveries across 90 Indian cities during the COVID-19
Key facts
- 90 cities
- 70 percent fleet
Why this matters
With Big Basket, Big Bazaar and Spencer's onboard and Grofers, Dunzo and FreshtoHome in talks, Rapido is consolidating into a multi-retailer delivery hub ripe for partnership or acquisition conversations.
What to watch
- Announcement of additional grocer/dark-store partnerships or geographic expansion beyond 90 cities
- Reinstatement of bike-taxi mobility rules signaling fleet reallocation back to rides
- Swiggy/Zomato/Dunzo counter-moves scaling their own essential-delivery fleets
- Driver safety incidents or state bans that cut effective fleet deployment
- Post-lockdown retention: whether grocers keep Rapido as a logistics vendor
- Formalize the widened network by closing Grofers, Dunzo and FreshtoHome tie-ups within weeks
- Standardize contactless delivery protocols, driver PPE, and government e-pass compliance to sustain fleet uptime
- Introduce delivery-fee/commission structure to test post-lockdown monetization of the logistics arm
- Grocers hedge by blending Rapido capacity with in-house riders to avoid single-partner dependency