A non-resident Indian’s joy after receiving mangoes and other essentials at his apartment in India within 9 minutes has sparked a huge controversy.
A social media user started a huge debate after praising India’s fast e-commerce and said that no 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 returned to India last night and ordered mango, shower gel, sanitizer, toothpaste, vegetables, fruits, milk and other essentials, making a total of 12 items delivered to his apartment in less than 9 minutes. Vinod compared this experience to getting milk in Norway, which involves driving to the store sometimes at temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius. “This is a normal life in one of the most ‘advanced’ countries in the world,” he said.“I sat there and laughed openly. Because we Indians complain about India all the time – the traffic, the chaos, the noise. But we don’t realize what we actually 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 comfort, this kind of bustle, this kind of ‘I want it now and I’ll have it now’ – this is India,” Vinod said.
“So, to every Indian who keeps comparing us – drive in the snow to get milk first.
“Then he told me we were not having good things,” Vinod concluded.Obviously, Vinod is not the first person to point out the ease of rapid e-commerce in India, and it has always remained a controversial issue with many people believing that this should not be a reason to rejoice as it only shows the abundance of cheap labour.“This is a good thing and makes me fall in love with Norway,” one wrote, approving of Norway’s inconvenience. “It’s important that we don’t let ourselves fall into the trap of a convenience society where a bunch of temporary workers run around offering our services en masse.”Another wrote: “Your name is Vinod, don’t act like you’re Norwegian. The main purpose of your post was to tell you that you live in Norway.”A third user wrote: “India is poor because of people like him.”“Yes, Norway must be bad, how can a country even survive without hundreds of millions of unemployed people who would put their lives at risk just to complete a food delivery in less than 15 minutes,” one wrote sarcastically.
