NOVEMBER 20204One of my neighbors is an old lady who suffers from an ailment that requires regular medication, else she suffers violent seizures. A month ago, she had visited a relative's house located in the other part of town. As luck would have it, she forgot her medicines at their house. It was late in the evening, she had nobody to drive her all the way across town and the thought of having an attack sent her in a tizzy. We pacified her and promised to drive her there the next morning. A few moments later, her bell rang. It was a delivery executive. He handed over her medicine box to her and left. The day was saved by a same day delivery startup. This is not an isolated example of the value that same day delivery firms add to a consumer's life. You want groceries delivered urgently? There's an app for that. Want to send important documents across town? There's an app for that. Midnight cake delivery for a loved one's birthday? Yes, there's an app for that too. Irrespective of your requirement, there are startups that have cracked the code to B2C delivery and help consumers save time, money and energy. We all would not have survived the pandemic and the resultant lockdown with as much ease if it was not for our same day delivery warriors. On the flipside, these same day delivery startups are also fueling the e-commerce industry. A major advantage that physical stores have over digital stores is the immediacy factor. With these startups having solved the missing piece of the logistics puzzle, consumers' reliance on digital stores is only going to increase.While the industry had realized this impending growth several years ago, same day delivery startups have started flourishing lately owing to the support rendered by tech trends such as Big Data, mobile technology and sophisticated algorithms to optimize the delivery flow. Building on these technologies, several startups have developed cost efficient and profitable business models that are revolutionizing the last mile delivery sector. The current edition of StartupCity puts the focus on 10 such emerging companies that have understood the pulse of the market and leveraged technology to solve the instant logistics problem. The list of '10 Best Same Day Delivery Startups ­ 2020' illustrates the disruption created by these game changers in the same day delivery space. So, if you feel like ordering your favorite chocolate brownie ice-cream from that far flung store, there great news for you. But there's some bad news if you're in a local-delivery business; your competition just got tougher.Do let us know your thoughts. Rachita SharmaSpecial EditorIn the Intense Race for Same Day Delivery the Winner is the ConsumerEDITOR'S NOTEVisualisers S Sivasankar J Dennis Bennito siliconindia Vol 7 · Issue 05 - 01 · November, 2020 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Special Editor Rachita Sharma Editorial Team Aparna Roy Monica Pallavi J Likhith Aradhya Subhadarshini Mohanty Sales & Marketing Ravi Kumar C S Sonia Editorial Queries startupcity@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit: www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ Cover price is ` 150 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2020 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.sales@startupcity.comGroup Art Director Ashok KumarCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalSr. Manager Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar
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