Quick commerce dark store reports for India

Latest report: October 2026, published 14 October 2026

Key numbers from the October 2026 report

• 8,241 dark stores across six apps, Amazon Now included.
• 853 Amazon Now dark stores, including 174 partner More stores it uses as dark stores.
• 2,613 Reliance Stores that JioMart also delivers from, counted separately.
• 498 cities and towns with at least one store, 33 of them new since September 2026.
• 393 stores joined the count and 5 closed since the previous reading.
• Store share by app: Blinkit 32%, Zepto 17%, Swiggy Instamart 16%, Flipkart Minutes 15%, BigBasket BB Now 11%, Amazon Now 10%.

Dark store count by app in each report

The dark-store total covers all six apps, Amazon Now included, wherever its count is known. The July 2026 report had no Amazon Now count, so its total covers five apps. JioMart’s Reliance Stores are shown beside the total and are not part of it. There is no August 2026 report. The July 2026 figures covered fewer places than later months, so not all of the rise from July to September is new stores.

Every report at a glance

• October 2026: 8,241 stores across six apps, up 388 in a month, with 33 new cities and Flipkart Minutes growing fastest.
• September 2026 dark store report: 7,030 stores. Most of the rise from July is wider coverage, not new openings.
• July 2026 dark store report: 5,625 stores in 408 cities. First reading, a lower bound.

Our store count vs the companies’ own figures

Eternal, Swiggy and Zepto publish store counts with their results. Those are taken on the last day of a quarter and come out weeks later, so they rarely match our count, which is taken on a different date. A company may also count some locations, such as partner stores, in a different way.

Flipkart Minutes and BigBasket do not publish regular store counts, so our count is the main figure for them. Amazon’s figure covers its own centres; our Amazon Now count also includes 174 partner More stores it uses as dark stores. Reliance gives no JioMart store count.

What each dark store report covers

• The dark-store total across six apps, with JioMart’s Reliance Stores counted on their own
• How many stores each app added or closed since the previous report
• Towns that got their first dark store, and the top cities
• Fee changes and rule news since the previous report
• Store counts and order values from the quarterly results of Blinkit, Instamart and Zepto

How we build each report

Each report starts from a fresh count of stores listed on the apps’ public store locators. Duplicates are merged, closed and planned stores are taken out, and app totals are checked against company figures before anything is published. Amazon Now counts in full, including partner More stores it uses as dark stores. JioMart delivers from Reliance Stores, so it is counted separately. Our counting methodology covers every step.

Between reports, the latest count for each place is in the city index.