Quick Commerce in Nepal
Quick commerce, or Q-commerce, is a fast and convenient way of shopping online where your order gets delivered in just minutes or within an hour. Unlike regular online shopping, where you might wait for a day or more, quick commerce focuses on speed. It’s great for people who need things urgently, like groceries, snacks, medicines, or daily use items. In this blog, we’ll explain how quick commerce works, why it’s becoming popular, and practical q-commerce ideas for Nepal.
Quick Commerce Categories
Quick commerce platforms cater to the immediate needs of urban consumers through speed of a variety of daily essentials. Common categories include personal care items like soaps, shampoos, and hygiene products; groceries such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, and pantry staples; and snacks and beverages including chips, chocolates, soft drinks, and juices. They also stock household essentials like cleaning supplies, detergents, and kitchen utilities. In addition, many platforms provide ready-to-eat food options for instant meals, and even medicines, covering basic over-the-counter drugs and health supplies.
Basic Criteria for Quick Commerce
Quick commerce works by delivering daily essentials like food, snacks, and personal care items to your doorstep in minutes. To make this happen fast, smart routing algorithms are used to find the quickest path for delivery. These services focus only on daily essential goods that people often need right away. They use dark stores, which are like small warehouses in your area, not open to the public, but stocked and ready to send out orders quickly. Everything is designed to be super quick and efficient, so you get what you need without delay.
Quick Commerce initiation in Nepal
Drop It | Fasto: This platform made early moves into Nepal’s quick commerce space. While it’s unclear if they’re still active in 2025, there were signs of initial investment, such as promotional content on social media and dedicated websites that even showed up on Google for "quick commerce" keywords. It promised to deliver fresh groceries and daily essentials within 8 minutes inside the Kathmandu Valley, aiming to offer true speed and convenience.
Foodmandu as a Quick Commerce-like Platform: Platforms like Foodmandu and Pathao Food are not full quick commerce players but come close. They mostly deliver restaurant food within an hour, which fits part of the quick commerce model. Since they have restaurant tie-ups that work like dark stores, and can deliver within a short time frame, they meet one of the most important conditions for quick commerce, fast delivery. However, their focus is limited to food only, not groceries or daily items.
Bhatbhateni and Other Mart Potential in Nepal: With 13 outlets inside the Kathmandu Valley, Bhatbhateni has huge potential to launch its own quick commerce service. It could convert part of its stores into dark stores and build on existing logistics and technology to support fast delivery. Other mini-marts like KK Mart, Big Mart, and SalesBerry also have the reach and setup needed to start offering quick delivery of essentials, leading the way for quick commerce in Nepal.
Grocery Delivery Stat
If you're planning to enter the grocery delivery business, these numbers can help you understand how big the opportunity is. In 2025, the grocery delivery market in Nepal is expected to reach around USD 338.85 million in revenue. And that’s just the beginning, the market is expected to grow by about 14.83% every year until 2030, reaching a total size of around USD 676.43 million.
To put this into perspective, the average revenue per user (ARPU) is estimated at USD 69.48 in 2025. That means every user is expected to spend about that much through grocery delivery services. Also, the number of people using such services is expected to hit 7.1 million by 2030, with about 16.5% of the population already using grocery delivery by 2025.
Quick Commerce from Nepali Neighbour
Blinkit (2021): Rebranded to match its bold promise of 10-minute deliveries, Blinkit quickly became a symbol of speed in the grocery delivery market, setting new standards for quick commerce.
Zepto (2021): Originally launched as Kiranakart in Mumbai, Zepto soon expanded to Delhi, Gurugram, and Chennai. It started with a 45-minute delivery promise, but rising consumer expectations pushed it to go faster. Zepto now claims to pack and dispatch orders within 60 seconds. By 2022, the company had 100 dark stores, each capable of handling up to 2,500 orders per day, making it a serious player in the quick commerce space.
Swiggy, originally known for food delivery, smartly expanded into quick commerce, using its strong delivery network to offer groceries and essentials at lightning speed. After being acquired by parent company Zomato, Swiggy’s quick commerce arm grew so fast it generated ₹23,000 crore in revenue in 2024, even outpacing Zomato. The business earns through marketplace commissions (10–12%), ads (3–4%), customer fees, and its own warehousing services. The system runs through dark stores, small hubs within 1.5 to 3 km from customers, where riders pick up items for fast delivery. These are supported by a mother warehouse, about 10 times bigger, supplying 30–40 dark stores. Costs come from last-mile delivery, packaging, wastage, customer communication, and acquiring new users. Each dark store runs in shifts with workers, and locations depend on peak-hour traffic, population, infrastructure, and average household income. All these parts help quick commerce deliver speed, convenience, and value.