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Rajagopal claims 70% of Indian quick commerce revenue comes from unhealthy products
“For them, 60 to 70% of the business are coming from products which have these ingredients.”
Rajagopal: FirstClub will reject retail media revenue and ban product-level ads
“In our platform, for example, it is going to be a zero PLA platform. No product level ads at all.”
Rajagopal: All large outcomes are built from antithesis, not thesis
“All large outcomes in the world have been built from antithesis and not from thesis. So, when you question, like, this is the way things happen, people will brand you as, like, you are the niche and all of that, but when this becomes the norm, the other one wi…”
Rajagopal: FirstClub refuses to sell Coke, Pepsi, Lay's, or major biscuits
“We are the only platform. We don't sell Pepsi and Coke. We don't sell Lay's and Bingo's of the world. We don't sell the big biscuit brands in the country, right?”
FirstClub limits its catalog to 5,000 products with strict brand constraints
“We don't have, like, 10,012 thousand products. We have 4000 to 5000 products on the platform, right? Number one. Number two, in any product you take, there are maximum of two or three brands. You would not find, like, 20 options for the consumers to come and s…”
Rajagopal: FirstClub customers average 10 to 11 items per basket
“When it comes to First Club, people browse a lot. People order 10 to 11 items in a basket, and the reason why it's happening is people spend a lot of time on the app, and that reason is again like, you know what, there are like so many good products, there are…”