It starts innocently. You’re doing the rangoli, you realise you’re three diyas short, and you open the app. ₹49 for a pack of twelve. Perfect. You tap, you tap again, and somewhere between the cart and the payment screen the number has nearly tripled. Delivery fee: ₹30. Handling charge: ₹11. Small-cart fee because your order is under ₹199: ₹25. Platform fee: ₹12. Suddenly those twelve diyas cost more than the brass ones at the corner shop, and you’re standing in your kitchen doing mental maths on a festival night. This isn’t a glitch. It’s the business model. Most quick commerce apps are expensive to run, and during Diwali they lean harder on these little add-ons because they know you’re in a hurry and you won’t walk to the shop in your puja clothes. The small-cart fee is the sneakiest of the lot. It punishes you for exactly the kind of order the app spent years teaching you to place: one thing, right now. The trouble is that every one of those fees exists to cover a cost the app created for itself: a long supply chain, middlemen between the farm and the shelf, and a delivery run that goes out full and comes back empty. This is the problem Accesco was built to fix at the root rather than at the checkout screen. Accesco sources directly from farmers and manufacturers, so there’s no distributor margin hiding inside the price of your diyas or your ghee. Its OriCircle stores keep one inventory for groceries, cooked meals and cooks, which means the shelf earns its keep three ways instead of one. And because the delivery partner takes your waste back on the same ride, the return trip isn’t a dead cost that has to be recovered from you as a “handling charge.” The result is the line Accesco actually leads with: no middlemen, no platform fees, no surprises. The price you see on the diyas is the price of the diyas. That sounds like a small thing until you’ve spent a Diwali evening watching ₹49 become ₹127. Until your neighbourhood has that, a few habits still help: batch your panic into one evening cart, check the fee thresholds before you shop, and remember the kirana down the road has never charged anyone a handling fee for putting diyas in a bag.