7 Simple Ways to Master WFH like a Boss!

The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we work…and we at Dunzo think this could be for the better. For those of us privileged to be working from home, we must continue to look at this shift in a positive light and make the most of this opportunity. While the…

#ProTips | Navigating “No Meeting Fridays” | Part 2

We know it’s not easy adjusting to this new way of working but we’ve got some tips to help you get time back and foster a more balanced and productive work life. Use communication tools: Remember the goal is to reduce meetings, not collaboration. We want to spend this time…

How Pune decided to get smart

Our new feature is no piece of cake!

Dunzo originally started as a concierge service fulfilling any kind of errand service…

DunzosuperHERoes

Dunzo salutes our women warriors for shattering stereotypes, while paving the way for a fair, and inclusive world. Here are the tales of two women who, against all odds…

How Indians Went Places With Names

It’s all about location, location, location. Dunzo has been connecting distant corners of cities running thousands of daily tasks for its users. Each of these tasks requires the user to store the location of the transaction under any name of their choice. And as it turned out, our users didn’t…

Customers & Merchants Join Dunzo’s Mascot Universe — The Duniverse!

#VarietyMakesUs As a platform built on and for delivery partners, merchants, and users, Dunzo’s creative philosophy has always been centered around its customers and merchants. The idea that #VarietyMakesUs is deeply embedded in Dunzo’s value system, and we have repeatedly emphasized this theme in many of our campaigns in the past…

#HEREFORPRIDE

Pride isn’t a color or a flavor of the month. It isn’t the latest trend or showing the world you’re ‘woke’. It’s about representation and not just for the moment, but something that is an innate part of our value system and beliefs. At Dunzo, we have always strived to…

#DunzoChronicles — mAsk Around

Dun101 | Navigating Demand-Supply Equation

One of the most interesting and complex problems, which sits at the heart of any logistics platform like Dunzo is getting the supply — the number of Delivery Partners active at a particular area-time slot — just right. If this balance is lacking, and you have less than the ideal…

Smart cities through the lanes of Dunzo

Dunzo gets things done. This simple yet complex premise is at the heart of Dunzo’s operations. Whether it’s commerce, commute, or courier, Dunzo has always been able to help users use their time more efficiently and make cities more accessible for everyone. Over the years, Dunzo’s popularity was evidence that…

India welcomes #TheDunzoGeneration

As our spirited nation strides into its 70th year of being a thriving democracy,the wheels of progress are indeed spinning fast! India today, boasts of a wonderfully vibrant crop of super productive high performers. The thinkers, the doers and the uncompromising go-getters. They keep the stakes high, and the mistakes…

Delivering Groceries, Medicines, Hope, and a whole lot more.

Grieving the loss of a family member and being the only caregiver in the household, Sunanda reached out to Dunzo about her personal struggle in trying to get essentials under the new curfew guidelines. With only a small window to purchase groceries, she ordered her groceries from her usual corner…

We like to movie it movie it!

Andas Apna Apna — Groceries on the go-go #AndazApnaApna

#TheMillennialCondition

The recent past has seen the interwebs be rife with chatter about the “Millennial generation”. Popularly believed to inhabit the age spectrum spanning 18 to 35, this rather fascinating breed of youngsters are as mystifying, as they are vocal. Tagged with many a label, this group of youthlings has been…

7 reasons why urban Indians are lazy and proud!

How Indians did it last Valentine’s Day

It’s that one day, that’s all about your Bae. The season of love is officially here! Thoughtful trinkets, saucy surprises, lovey letters and gifts galore. Romance is indeed being delivered around town in quirky new ways. Love makes you do crazy things, they say. Here’s proof that love makes you…

Humans of Dunzo

“Coming from Guwahati, Bangalore was totally foreign to me. Though I’ve had my share of hurdles, the people of Dunzo have embraced me and made me feel at home all these years. Working at Dunzo is like “Dhoom machale” for me, every day. In fact, while working on the User Experience for Delivery Partners, I have built a great rapport with Dunzo Delivery Partners and believe that they are the pillars of this business. Every time I have a Dunzo order running, I prepare tea for the partner and have a chai session with them at home to understand their day and their pain points. Today, when they know it’s my order they call me and tell me “keep chai ready, I’ll be there soon’’. The initial days of lockdown were very difficult for all of us and so at that time I immediately made a table in my diary of all the partners and their corresponding areas of residence to create a sort of task force. This was a time when a lot of firefighting was needed and I’m glad all the information I had came in handy to users who really needed our services. I’m obsessed with providing the best user experience be it for our users or our partners. Today I lead a team of 38 and my only mantra has been — “Chase your curiosity””

#ProTips | A Manager’s Guide to Nurturing Team Spirit while Working Remotely

Staying in touch with your team while working from home, can be challenging. But building connections with them beyond work can be even more challenging in the absence of physical proximity. As we continue to embrace this new way of working, making time to connect beyond work is as important…

Deliver for Dunzo Partners

At Dunzo, we’ve been getting so many messages from you about how happy you are that we’re there during this time of crisis. And we’re so grateful for your love and support at this time. However, we know that love is purely a reaction to the amazing work your Delivery…

Humans of Dunzo

Vaidehi Murthy I have tread both paths — the conventional & the so-called “unconventional” and I think these experiences have pretty much helped me develop what I call “the tilted perspective”. Having studied engineering, I worked as a Software engineer for 5 years at the start of my career. I did the…

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Make time for life with Dunzo in 2019

DUN101 | Reclaiming the free storage in Postgres

Introduction Do you have a strong data archival policy or frequently delete/update data in your Postgres tables but do not see the storage space becoming available? You would have stumbled upon Postgres Vacuuming, which is slow and requires downtime to free up storage space. We implemented pg_repack and here’s how it…

#WellDun2020

2020 has indeed been a defining year for all delivery businesses in India. The global health crisis and the ensuing lockdowns have led home deliveries to make the transition from being a lifestyle choice to a lifeline. Dunzo has seen an increasing number of customers embrace its safety and convenience during this challenging period. With the majority of the population being shut indoors for a larger part of the year, we’ve observed that the ordering habits of Indians have seen a distinct shift as compared to the preceding years. Altered routines and a change in priorities have caused a perceptible distinction in consumer behavior. From Condoms, IPills, and Pregnancy tests being the highest orders in the Medicine category, to most cities ordering cat food over dog food, to the recent surge in demand for healthy alternatives, some of these data points certainly stood out from the usual. We decided to compile a few intriguing insights from the year gone by, to throw light on how India got it, Dun, in 2020. Enumerated below, is the list of interesting patterns in user orders that we observed last year. It has most certainly been a year of surprises, and Dunzo users certainly did not disappoint with their buying habits. Irrespective of what the next year holds, Dunzo shall continue to serve in all its geographies with the single goal of bringing the magic of convenience to every home, and hopefully workplaces too, very soon.