Ecommerce in India

Ecommerce shoppers are heading for a bonanza this October, as Amazon India has announced the launch of their “Great Indian Festive Sale” on the very same dates when Flipkart will conduct their Big Billion Day sales: October 13 to…

Ahead of the second edition of their Big Billion Day Sales extravaganza, Flipkart has received a major jolt to their advertising campaign. The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has taken severe note of the misleading…

Flipkart has announced that their Big Billion Sale would be repeated this year; but there is a twist. Only those customers who are on their mobile app are eligible to shop. Desktop users have been excluded from participating from this…

Flipkart Ltd., the parent company of India’s homegrown ecommerce portal Flipkart.com, which is based in Singapore, has bought back the shares of their logistics business from WS Retail. Business analysts are predicting that this move…

As more and more Indians are able to access Internet, more and more traditional purchases are being converted into online sales. And the latest to hit this trend are goats, cows and buffaloes. We can see on online classified sites…

Except in some rare cases, everything which is available online, is also available offline; then why should a customer choose Snapdeal or Flipkart or Amazon over the neighborhood departmental shop or the mall which is just 30 minutes…

Amazon India today announced that it has added seven new Fulfillment Centres (FCs) across India to meet the growing needs of its fast-growing seller base. The new New Fulfillment Centres have been opened in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata,…

Indian publishing market is abuzz with rumors that Flipkart is exiting ebooks business. At a time when Indians are finally warming up to the notion of reading books via digital ink, this is certainly negative news for the industry as a…

All Delhi based online retailers are henceforth mandated to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) to the Delhi Government; failure of which can result a fine of Rs 50,000. Although ecommerce marketplaces, such as Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon have…

Online ordering has become the most convenient for of shopping these days. Ordering grocery through apps, which reaches you within 90 minutes was the recent trend that everyone was falling in for with the spread of apps like Grofers and…