Urban logistics relies on proximity to customers, with local warehouses enabling quick delivery. E-commerce services often employ their own riders for fast bike-based deliveries, unaffected by traffic and parking constraints. Alternatively, businesses can partner with local services like Deliveroo and Uber Eats. Alibaba’s ‘Fema’ stores in China serve as quick commerce hubs, ensuring deliveries in under 30 minutes. RytleX offers a well-suited ecosystem for such urban logistics needs.

E-commerce has found success in specific product niches, particularly for everyday items like food, drinks, cosmetics, and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Quick commerce delivery is well-suited for gifts, medicine (pharmacies), and in-demand products like office supplies and electronics, which have gained prominence with the rise of remote work. Businesses focused on e-commerce prioritize stocking their local warehouses with frequently purchased items, especially those favored by Gen Z and millennial customers who actively seek out fast delivery options.

E-commerce has found success in specific product niches, particularly for everyday items like food, drinks, cosmetics, and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Quick commerce delivery is well-suited for gifts, medicine (pharmacies), and in-demand products like office supplies and electronics, which have gained prominence with the rise of remote work. Businesses focused on e-commerce prioritize stocking their local warehouses with frequently purchased items, especially those favored by Gen Z and millennial customers who actively seek out fast delivery options.

The Covid-19 pandemic completely disrupted consumer shopping behaviour. Though some consumers have returned to shop in-store, others still prefer to do it online due to convenience.

The use of online commerce has certainly accelerated, but it was already on the rise pre-pandemic. Now, these newly formed habits aren’t going anywhere. Digital natives will continue to demand instant gratification from their online shopping experiences.

And now that the technology is available, more and more eCommerce brands will start to offer delivery in minutes.

As online commerce services expand, the number of products that are in demand will grow too. Right now, many online commerce services specialise in delivering groceries, but this is likely to expand to other FMCG products and beyond. Beauty, health and medicine are key categories that are already emerging.

In fact, Spanish quick commerce service Glovo has already expanded its service offering by fulfilling orders for furniture, medicine and technology in under an hour. It can pretty much deliver anything from the largest shopping mall in your city to your door in just minutes.

There are significant problems facing the eCommerce industry that will see its hypergrowth slow. In fact, this is already happening as investors turn their attention elsewhere post-pandemic. The likes of Getir, Gorillas and Zapp are currently downsizing in response to dwindling capital investment.

Then there’s problems like traffic congestion in cities and safety concerns. Authorities in New York, for example, may ban 15-minute deliveries over concerns that they put pressure on drivers to speed.

New technological advancements, like electric vehicles, better sorting and (dynamic) routing, drone delivery and machine learning, will help address issues and nurture online-commerce. It will also make this a greener industry.