RedMart expanded its express grocery delivery network across Singapore after daily orders for RedMart Now jumped sixfold following its February launch.

The supermarket arm of Lazada Group S.A. Quadrupled its delivery fleet and launched three fulfilment centres to handle the surge in quick-commerce volume.

Service expanded into northern and north-eastern Singapore in August and the east in October, while same-day capacity for scheduled deliveries tripled this year under RedMart head Martin Daney.

RedMart Now operates on delivery windows starting from 30 minutes, relying on localized inventory nodes rather than single centralized warehouses. The express catalogue holds a fraction of the broader platform inventory, which stocks more than 120,000 items.

Chilled food, meat, dairy, fresh vegetables and seafood represent a larger proportion of express purchases than scheduled runs. Morning shopping begins at 7 a.m. Each day, driven by shoppers seeking recipe ingredients and daily replenishment rather than bulk pantry restocking.

Delivering groceries in as fast as 30 minutes requires having inventory positioned closer to customers, efficient picking and packing, and having sufficient delivery capacity, including at peak times.

Quick commerce models across Southeast Asia routinely struggle with delivery density and high labour overheads. By using existing Lazada warehouse infrastructure and logistics software built over a decade, RedMart limits the steep capital outlays that broke earlier standalone grocery startups in the city-state.

For brick-and-mortar supermarket chains, faster online fulfilment puts pressure on local store margins. Physical grocers must balance counter service with picking staff in aisles or build costly mini dark stores of their own.

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