Indian NRI's praise for India's 9-minute e-commerce delivery sparks debate

An NRI's joy after getting mangoes and other essentials in 9 minutes in his apartment in India triggered a major debate.

An NRI's joy after getting mangoes and other essentials in 9 minutes in his apartment in India triggered a major debate.

A social media user started a major debate after he praised the quick e-commerce of India and said no one developed country has this luxury of 'want it and will have it now' that India has. Vinod, who often posts about India and Norway, said he landed back in India last night and ordered mangoes, shower gel, sanitiser, toothpaste, vegetables, fruits, milk, and other essentials, making it 12 items in total which were delivered to his apartment in less than 9 minutes.

Vinod compared this experience with getting milk in Norway, which involves driving to the shop sometimes at minus 10 degrees Celsius. "That’s normal life in one of the most “advanced” countries in the world," he said. "I sat there and just laughed, honestly. Because we Indians complain about India all the time - the traffic, the chaos, the noise. But we don’t realize what we already have until we leave and come back. No one in the “developed” world has this. Not Norway, not anywhere I’ve been. This kind of convenience, this kind of hustle, this kind of “I want it now and I’ll have it now" - that’s India," Vinod observed. "So to every Indian who keeps comparing us down - go drive in the snow for milk first. Then tell me we don’t have it good," Vinod concluded.

Vinod is obviously not the first person to point out the fast e-commerce convenience in India, and it has always remained a contentious issue as many people think that this should not be a reason to cheer as it only shows the abundance of cheap labor.

"This is good and makes me even fonder of Norway. It's important not to let ourselves fall for the convenience society where a bunch of gig workers run around to deliver our services en masse," one wrote approving of Norway's inconvenience. "Your name is Vinod, don't act like you are Norwegian. Main goal of your post was to tell you live in Norway lol," another wrote. "India is poor because of people like him," a third user wrote. "Yeah Norway must suck, how can a country even survive without 100s of millions of underemployed/unemployed people who will put their lives in danger just to complete food deliveries in under 15 minutes," one wrote sarcastically.