Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce arm of the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant, aims to double its dark store network to 1,000 by March-April 2026, according to Hemant Badri – SVP and Head of Supply Chain, Customer Experience & Re-Commerce, Flipkart Group. The aggressive roadmap follows a year where the platform fell short of its initial projections, ending 2025 with just over 500 operational dark stores against a target of 800. The original ambition was laid out by Flipkart Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy at Walmart’s annual Investment Community Meeting in April 2025. At the time, with the service sitting at nearly 300 stores, up from roughly 100 just nine months prior, Krishnamurthy had projected reaching 800 dark stores by the end of the year. While the company has missed this mark, it now intends to accelerate expansion “having figured out an expansion playbook,” Badri said.