Amazon Now scales to 500 dark stores, 500K daily orders as it muscles into India quick commerce

Launched September 2025, Amazon Now is clocking 450,000-500,000 orders per day with 25% MoM growth across 500 dark stores, leveraging Prime to challenge Blinkit (3M orders/day, 2,200 warehouses), Zepto and Flipkart Minutes. A Rs 2,800 crore investment underwrites the late but well-funded entry.

— Filed Fri, 29 May, 2026, 08:03 IST · Source The Ken · Free list · Updated

Amazon Now, launched September 2025, is scaling quick commerce aggressively in India with 500 dark stores and 450-500k daily orders growing 25% MoM, leveraging Prime to challenge Blinkit, Zepto and Flipkart Minutes.

Why this matters

Scaling milestone follows Amazon Now's recent logistics build-out, including a plan to deploy 1,000 Eicher electric trucks by 2028 to power its quick commerce backbone across India.

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