Once every week, Kunal Gupta, the head of Flipkart Minutes, holds a two-hour catch-up meeting with his whole team. And every week, he talks stock. 

“He goes through data on SKUs step by step with category managers and directors,” a category manager says, meaning stock-keeping units. “I have never seen a senior vice-president going through SKUs at that level before.”

That attention to detail is how Gupta has turned Minutes into the hottest new quick-commerce property in the country and, in the process, made it critical to Flipkart’s growth........

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