Report According to the company’s delivery executives went on strike after the change in payout structure. For a week they protested and then around a thousand delivery executives joined hands with other companies! Reports suggest that Blinkit has cut down on payments to delivery executives. The minimum payment has been made Rs 15 per trip, which was earlier fixed at Rs 25 per delivery, and an incentive of Rs 7 per trip was given in peak hours.
Several Blinkit dark stores and micro warehouses in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad were closed for a few days due to protests by delivery executives. The company is starting them again. Blinkit has around 200 such warehouses in Delhi-NCR, with the help of which it delivers to customers within a radius of 2 to 3 km.
As per reports, Blinkit had around 3,000 delivery executives in Delhi-NCR before the strike. About one-third of them have joined other companies. It is not known how many executives the company has right now, as it is also adding new people. The report also spoke to a former delivery executive of Blinkit.
According to him, we were hopeful that the company would revert to the old rate card. Failing this, Mohammad Zakir has started working with Zepto. Rival companies benefited from the opposition Blinkit faced. According to another report by ET, Bigbasket, Zipto and Instamart saw a 25 to 50 per cent increase in orders due to the strike. Over 100 Blinkit stores that were temporarily closed due to the strike are now open. Significantly, Blinkit is owned by Zomato.