Strategy question

If the CEO of Zomato asked you, as a product manager, to launch a grocery product, how would you approach it?

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What this question tests

Whether the candidate can plan a new category launch leveraging existing logistics assets while weighing real competitive and margin risk.

Clarify the ask: whether this is a fully new grocery vertical or leveraging Zomato's existing restaurant delivery fleet and customer base for grocery items.
Assess the market: grocery delivery in India is already contested (Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart), so a distinct angle is needed, not a direct copy.
Identify Zomato's advantage: existing delivery fleet density, restaurant relationships for adjacent grocery-like items, and an established customer base with payment details on file.
Propose a focused entry, such as starting with a curated, high-margin grocery category (packaged goods, kitchen essentials) using existing dark stores or restaurant partnerships, rather than full quick-commerce parity.
Recommend a phased, metro-city pilot with a clear success metric (order frequency, contribution margin per order) and name the key risk, thin margins in an already price-competitive category.

Names the real, already-crowded competitive set (Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart) instead of treating grocery as an open opportunity.
Grounds the entry strategy in Zomato's specific existing assets (delivery density, customer base) rather than a generic quick-commerce playbook.
Flags margin risk explicitly, since grocery delivery is a famously thin-margin, capital-intensive category.

Proposing to compete head-on with Blinkit or Zepto without a differentiated angle.
Ignoring the margin and capital intensity risk that has challenged this category broadly.

How would you differentiate from Blinkit and Instamart, who already have a head start?
What would make you recommend against launching this at all?