Protecting the Ecosystem — Dunzo Delivery Partners, Merchants, and Teams

The current wave of the COVID — 19 pandemic has left a long-lasting impact on society and our ecosystem whether it’s Delivery Partners, Merchants, Users, or the Dunzo team. With cities across the country going into lockdown, continued and timely access to medicines and essentials is the need of the…

#DunzoChronicles — Bengaluru Oota Company

Humans of Dunzo

“Close to 2 years back, I tried my hand at several jobs but nobody really wanted to give me one as I was still a student pursuing Bcom. After my father passed away, the responsibility to take care of my mother and my younger sister fell upon me and I almost gave up and planned to return to my hometown to pursue agriculture when I got the chance to work for Dunzo. At Dunzo, I’ve had the chance to learn so much and started off by doing documentation for HR & Legal, picking up and delivering documents, and assisting the admin team. Slowly I also started taking care of the travel desk for a bit and even helped manage Kabeer’s (Dunzo Co-founder & CEO) travels which was all new to me. Today, I work with the legal team as a paralegal supporting all compliance and documentation needed while also balancing a distance education course in Bcom. I’m crazy about cricket when I’m not working and recently learned to make tea during the lockdown. My happiness mantra is to love people and be loved and I have felt it more so with the people I work with at Dunzo.”

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…

DUN101 Blog Series | Where Does Dunzo, Dunzo?

Dunzo has always adopted the philosophy of all for one and one for all. Our three-sided platform, built on Merchants, Partners, and Users, operates in a largely symbiotic fashion, relying on each other to have the most optimal experience on the platform. The experience really boils down to reliability and…

Our new feature is no piece of cake!

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

Your doorstep — The best platform ever built

Breaking into the market for a new brand can be tricky; one might even say that it has a certain appeal to it when it’s done right. But think about it, there are quite a few things the brand has to…

Make time for life with Dunzo in 2019

#HereForPride

It’s Pride Month, and if the events that have transpired across the world this year have taught us anything, it is the importance of shedding prejudices and practicing harmonious coexistence. On this occasion, to encourage greater tolerance towards, and a better understanding of the issues affecting the LGBTQIA+ community…

DUN101 Blog Series | Battling New User Cancellations

Measure everything — Capturing accurate data helps you benchmark the past, present and future performance…

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…

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…

#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…

#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.

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…

Women who get it Dun — #BalanceForBetter

At Dunzo, we have always aimed to equalize opportunities to facilitate a fair and liberated space to strengthen women and their talents. Our constant endeavor is to make the workplace a nurturing ground for healthy interactions, stimulative ideas, and collaborative efforts. We take special pride in our formidable band of…

#VarietyMakesUs — What went into our Independence Day Campaign

India. How simple a word to encapsulate its fantastic complexities. An intricately woven fabric of cultures, languages, sciences, arts, ideologies, contradictions, and most importantly, emotions that define its ethos. From soaking in the wealth of heritage, to the thriving variety of cultures, to reaching the pinnacle of progress, India…

#DunzoChronicles — mAsk Around

#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…

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…

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…

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…

#ProTips |Running and Attending Meetings Effectively!

Did you know? A study from Walt Street Journal, Atlassian, and Doodle has found that about 71% of professionals misspend time every week due to unnecessary, poorly conducted, or canceled meetings. More often than not, certain meetings could be emails and closed without spending time deliberating — all it needs is constant communication between team members and teams. Here are some simple and effective ways on how to run these meetings. The time saved on these meetings is time gained to…

#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…

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…