InquisitivePR

Curious Thinker | Liberal Indian | Tech & Watch Enthusiast | Observer of Politics & Cinema | E-Commerce Strategist

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Funny how a star hero wants cheaper popcorn but defends inflated ticket prices. Families can choose not to buy popcorn. They can't choose not to buy tickets. ₹400 popcorn is a concern.

₹600 tickets for a ₹125 seat are the issue. THE BIGGER ISSUE!!

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@zomatocare If a order is prepared late and delivered late by the restaurant than why shouldn't the customer have the option to cancel and claim refund. What are you benefiting out of this @zomatocare Horrible.

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I had the worst Customer Support for a query resolution from @zomatocare no need for any further help, understanding the query and providing a resolution is the way to go not a template generic answer which has no value whatsoever.

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What happened to Indian Ads 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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@VSReddy_MP Everyone’s entitled to an opinion on social media. Some are heard, some are ignored.

In laymen terms, I ignored it. I’ll wait for words from a statesman, not a salesman.

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Travelling is the best medicine one would get after a week long work.

[WWE @WWE]

Brock Lesnar leaves his gear in the ring. What's next for The Beast?

The FIRST HOUR of #WrestleMania is LIVE RIGHT NOW on ESPN!

[Las Vegas @Vegas]

THANK YOU BROCK! @WWE

[Netflix España @NetflixES]

John Cena.
AJ Styles.
Brock Lesnar.

💔 #WrestleMania

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@Mrwhosetheboss @Sidemen Awesome

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GOATs of WWE are retiring one by one.

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Brock Lesnar thank you for all the entertainment all this years @WWE

[Lets Cinema @letscinema]

Jio Hotstar now has HBO Max, Disney, Marvel, Star, IPL and DC all in ONE APP.

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After watching Monday Night Raw I am a Paul Heyman Fan!! @WWE

[Lets Cinema @letscinema]

Late legendary Telugu actor Kota Srinivasa Rao was featured at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures at the #Oscars, honoring his immense contribution to the film industry.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Nathan Fillion admits that they have not secured a studio to distribute or stream the animated Firefly.

"The last piece we need is a home. And for that we need you. Like this post."

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

In Parliament today I proposed optional Joint filing of Income Tax Returns for married couples.

Family A
Both spouses earn ₹10 lakh each.
Total household income is ₹20 lakh.
Tax: zero

Family B
One spouse earns ₹20 lakh. The other stays home to raise their child.
Total household income is ₹20 lakh.
Tax: ₹1.92 lakh

The only difference is how the salary is split between the two spouses.

One roof. One kitchen. One household budget. But when tax time comes, the family disappears.

The tax system sees two individuals. A husband and wife become strangers. No clubbing of income or rebates.

In Parliament today I proposed optional joint filing of Income Tax Returns for married couples, so families with uneven incomes are not unfairly penalised. If implemented, then Family A and Family B both will pay Zero Tax.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Swiggy owned 12% of Rapido. Within weeks of Ownly launching, Swiggy sold the entire stake for ₹2,400 crore to Prosus and WestBridge. That tells you everything about how seriously the incumbents are taking this.

“Zero commission” here actually means zero. As of the full Bengaluru launch, Ownly charges restaurants nothing. No commissions, no platform fees, no marketing fees, no subscription fees. Customers pay a flat ₹30 delivery fee. That’s the entire revenue model right now. Compare that to Zomato and Swiggy, where restaurants lose 25-35% of every order to commissions, plus advertising charges, plus packaging fees. On a ₹300 order, a restaurant on Zomato takes home roughly ₹195 after all deductions. On Ownly, they keep the full ₹300.

And even at those 25-35% take rates, the incumbents can barely make money. Zomato posted ₹102 crore net profit in Q3 FY26, but strip out the interest income from ₹17,820 crore sitting in FDs and bonds (roughly $2 billion in cash from years of fundraising), and operations are still in the red. In Q2, excluding treasury income, Zomato’s EBIT was actually negative ₹137 crore. The “profit” is their savings account, not their food delivery business. Swiggy lost ₹1,065 crore the same quarter, even after raising ₹10,000 crore through a QIP and pocketing ₹2,400 crore from selling its Rapido stake. Food delivery margins are real for Zomato, around 5.4% EBITDA, but both companies have been pouring those thin profits into quick commerce, which has been a massive cash furnace. Blinkit just hit EBITDA breakeven for the first time in Q3. Swiggy’s Instamart is still losing ₹908 crore a quarter.

Rapido’s bet is that this is a volume game. They pulled the exact same move in ride-hailing: replaced Ola and Uber’s 15-20% commission with a flat subscription for drivers. Drivers kept 100% of fares. Rapido now does 6 million rides daily across 500+ cities, valued at $2.3 billion. The playbook worked.

Food delivery is harder, though. A ride needs one driver. A food order needs a rider, a restaurant that packed correctly, and a delivery window measured in minutes. The graveyard is long: Ola Cafe (2015, dead in a year), Foodpanda ($50M acquisition, shut down), Uber Eats India (exited 2020, sold to Zomato), Thrive (80 cities, shut December 2024). Even government-backed ONDC saw food orders drop from 65 lakh to 46 lakh per month between October 2024 and February 2025.

What Rapido has that none of them did: 2 million two-wheeler riders already delivering packages and 30 million monthly users already opening the app. That’s logistics and demand that cost nothing extra to activate. NRAI’s 50,000 restaurants are signing up because keeping ₹100 more per order is the difference between surviving and shutting down.

The ₹30 delivery fee is the foot in the door. Subscriptions, restaurant ads, and data monetization are the actual business model. Whether Rapido can survive the burn long enough to get there, at $4-5 million a month before Ownly even launched, is the billion-dollar question.

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@Swiggy @noxiousgiri Rather than addressing the query, Swiggy CX comes back with a rebuttal. Glad I stopped using it altogether.

When it comes to customer queries, somehow they manages to stay at the top for all the wrong reasons.

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