Indians left no stone unturned to celebrate the new year, on New Year’s Eve Indians shopped a lot through online shopping. Indians ordered everything from grapes to condoms, packets of chips to handcuffs from Blinkit, Swiggy and Big Basket, customers ordered everything that could improve their party mood on the occasion of New Year’s Eve celebration. Blinkit sold 1.2 lakh condoms on New Year’s Eve, Swiggy sold 4,779 condoms.
Blinkit founder revealed
Blinkit’s co-founder Albinder Dhindsa told X that on New Year’s Eve, Indians’ main party items like chips, coke and namkeen were the attraction of the evening. His delivery agents had delivered 2.3 lakh packets of aloo bhujia and 6,834 packets of ice cubes till 8 pm on December 31.
39 percent of condom sales were for chocolate flavor, in which strawberry was 31 percent and bubble gum was 19 percent. Not only this, there was a lot of demand for grape flavored condoms.
Expressing surprise at this, Albinder said that this is the most high demand product since morning. He said that why do people need grapes on the last day. The reason for the high demand for grapes was told by social media users. People said that it is an age-old practice to ask for a wish by eating 12 grapes on New Year’s Eve.
Increased interest in handcuffs
Swiggy Instamart also released some figures related to this day. According to this, on New Year’s Eve, orders for 853 chips were coming in every minute at 7:30 pm. People also ordered blindfolds and handcuffs a lot on this day. The co-founder of Swiggy Instamart said that 119 kg of ice cubes were ordered in one minute at 7:41 pm. This was the biggest order of this evening.
