Rapido ties up with BigBasket, Big Bazaar & Spencer's for essential deliveries across 90 cities
Rapido has partnered with BigBasket, Big Bazaar and Spencer's Retail for last-mile delivery of essentials during India's COVID-19 lockdown, waiving commissions for driver-partners. The bike-taxi firm is in talks with Grofers, Dunzo and FreshtoHome to expand its delivery network further.
What happened
Rapido partners with Big Basket, Big Bazaar and Spencer's Retail for last-mile essential deliveries across 90 cities during India's COVID-19 lockdown, waiving
Key facts
- 90 cities
- 70 percent of fleet
- 118 lives
- 4,300 cases
Why this matters
Rapido's simultaneous tie-ups with BigBasket, Big Bazaar and Spencer's—plus talks with Grofers, Dunzo and FreshtoHome—position it as a neutral last-mile aggregator ripe for deeper partnership or acquisition by any grocery player seeking captive delivery capacity.
What to watch
- Lockdown relaxation timelines and resumption of intercity/passenger mobility
- Rapido announcing paid/commission-based delivery terms
- New partner announcements (Grofers, Dunzo, FreshtoHome) confirmed or stalled
- Retailers building in-house dark-store/fleet capacity
- Driver-partner earnings and retention signals post-commission-waiver period
- Funding or strategic-investment news for Rapido's logistics arm
- Rapido to sign Grofers, Dunzo, FreshtoHome and expand beyond 90 cities
- Introduce paid commission structure once lockdown eases to monetize the vertical
- Retailers (BigBasket, Spencer's) to diversify across multiple last-mile aggregators to de-risk capacity
- Competing bike-taxi/mobility players (Ola, Uber) to launch or expand their own grocery-delivery pivots
- Rapido to formalize a B2B logistics/delivery product line separate from ride-hailing