In today’s era, online food and grocery delivery has become an important part of people’s lives. Now there will hardly be any smartphone which does not have a food delivery app. Earlier people used to go to the market, hotel or shop themselves to buy food items, but now the situation has completely changed. Food, snacks, groceries and even water bottles can be ordered online in just a few minutes while sitting at home. This habit of convenience has made people’s life easier, but there is often discussion about the expenses behind it and the way companies work.
Recently, a video is becoming increasingly viral on social media which has forced people to think. In this video, a delivery boy made such a revelation related to the delivery of an ordinary bottle of water, which many people were surprised to hear. In the video, he told how the game of money goes on between the company, customer and delivery partner in a small delivery.
The delivery boy got this much money
The delivery agent seen in the video tells that he had received an order to deliver a water bottle worth Rs 20 to the customer. When he arrived to make the delivery, he jokingly asked the customer how much money he had paid for this bottle. The customer replied that the bottle which was available for Rs 20 in the market, cost Rs 29 when ordered online. That means he had to pay extra money just for the convenience of getting the goods delivered to his home.
After this the delivery boy told another interesting thing in the video. He said that in return for this small delivery the company gave him a total of Rs 85. People were shocked to hear this because on one hand only Rs 9 extra was taken from the customer, while on the other hand Rs 85 was paid to the delivery agent. The young man who made the video himself expresses surprise and says that he cannot understand how the company could have benefited from this entire order.
After this video surfaced on social media, people reacted fiercely to it. Many users say that online delivery companies invest heavily in the beginning to provide convenience to the customers and due to this they sometimes incur higher expenses even on small orders. Some people called it a marketing strategy. He says that companies incur such expenses to make customers into the habit of using the app so that they can earn more profits in future.
Some users also praised the hard work of the delivery agents. People said that whether the order is small or big, the delivery partner has to work in all weather and traffic conditions. In such a situation, it is not wrong for them to get paid well. At the same time, some people also raised the question that if companies are spending so much on a small water bottle, then how would their business model work.
In today’s time, the trend of instant delivery is increasing rapidly. People have now started ordering even the smallest things online. In many cities, it is claimed to deliver the goods within 10 to 15 minutes. This video has been shared on social media platform X with an account named @SiddharthKG7.
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There is anxiety at the thought that all these companies are going to create such a bubble by merging.
How investors fall into their clutches is also a subject of research.
All this money that is burnt here, could have been used in some productive value adding work, or in some research. pic.twitter.com/2HtlI6jw6E
— Siddharth’s Echelon (@SiddharthKG7) May 19, 2026
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