After spending much of 2024 in a verbal war with Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal over his company’s failure to address customer complaints, comedian Kunal Kamra started 2025 by attacking the quick commerce sector.
It all started when Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa was live-tweeting about the enormous number of orders they received on New Year’s Eve. Dhindsa shared on X (formerly Twitter) that 1.2 lakh packs of condoms and 45,000 bottles of mineral water were out for delivery through Blinkit among several other orders.
Kamra immediately questioned the quick-com company CEO about the average wages he paid the Delivery Partners last year.
“Can you also enlighten us with data on the average wages you paid your “Delivery Partners” in 2024…,” the comedian wrote.
While most customers laud the convenience of quick deliveries, Kamra pointed out the “dark side” of quick commerce, pointing out that platform owners exploit gig workers.
“While we enjoy the convenience of quick commerce I’d like my first tweet of 2025 to be about the dark side,” Kamra wrote in a follow-up post.
“Platform owners exploit gig workers & they aren’t job creators. They are landlords without owning any land,” he added.
Kamra went on to compare CEOs of quick commerce companies to “thugs”, saying how they are allowed to exploit delivery partners as no regulations or laws exist to stop them.
“They are thugs that are using data as oil without paying for the oil fields. Someday there will be regulation that humbles them…” said Kamra.
Netizens react
His post collected over 1.9 lakh views in a matter of hours and received considerable support from other X users.
“Blinkit, Zepto, Zomato, Swiggy. All of them. Zero creativity- only exploitation. The delivery workers are stretched to a great extent for compensation that is not justified at all. 10 mins delivery isn’t a landmark thing tbh. It’s sheer exploitation of humanity to satisfy the ego & whims of the buyer,” remarked an X user.
“Studies show that over 50% of gig workers report earning below minimum wage after accounting for expenses, while platforms continue to rake in billions in valuation,” another individual commented.
A third user wrote, now there are 2 scenarios
1. @albinder humbly responds to @kunalkamra88 .
2. @albinder responds in @bhash way
If the latter, @albinder will have a horrible 2025
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