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  • E-commerce versus kirana: Ambani crafts another wave of disruption
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    Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is the man who has his finger on the pulse of Indian consumer. In a speech at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence recently, Ambani said when the fashion was to invest abroad, Reliance took a contrarian bet to invest Rs 3.5 lakh crore in India and that has […]

  • Brand Factory to charge entry fee on ‘free-shopping’ days
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     Future Group is doing what perhaps no other retailer has done ever: charging customers a cover of Rs 100-250 to enter its discount fashion format Brand Factory. The cover charge would be applicable during a five-day promotion campaign from November 22-26, when Brand Factory will charge consumers buying goods worth Rs 5,000 at maximum retail price (MRP) from its […]

  • After changing telecom’s face forever, Jio now sets sights on a grand entry in ecommerce
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    AHMEDABAD: Reliance Jio, after successfully disrupting India’s telecom industry, is preparing to wade into the crowded ecommerce market leveraging its vast network and hundreds of millions of subscribers, according to two persons aware of matter. The company is working with corner stores, or ‘kiranas’, and consumer brands to create an operational model that will enable shoppers […]

  • Amazon to open in Australia; shipping to start by the end-of-year holiday season
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    Amazon.com Inc is “really close” to opening in Australia, its country manager said on Monday, as the US e-commerce juggernaut prepares to shake up an already-fragile brick-and-mortar retail sector in the world’s No. 12 economy. Image: Reuters While Amazon did not give an exact start date, the remarks from Rocco Braeuniger suggest the company will ship […]

  • From 2018, MRP labels on products sold online mandatory
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    According to government’s new labelling rules, it will be mandatory for products sold on e-commerce platforms and medical devices declared as drugs like stents from next year onwards to carry retail prices and other essential information, news agency PTI reported. Amendments to the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, was approved by Union Food and […]

  • Amazon May Disrupt Prescription Drug Space Next
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    The rumor that Amazon has set its sights on disrupting the pharmaceutical industry has gained greater currency recently, just months after the company set the grocery business on fire with its acquisition of Whole Foods, and in the midst of its widely publicized search for a second U.S. headquarters location. Amazon reportedly has taken major […]

  • Flipkart to offer local-made mobile under Billion label
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    Flipkart‘s co-founder Sachin Bansal, who made a comeback to the day-to-day operations at the e-commerce company with the launch of the ‘Billion’ brand earlier this year, is now introducing a smartphone under the private label. Priced in the Rs 11,000-13,000 range, Billion Capture+ will be manufactured by home-grown device maker Smartrone and will look to cater to the […]

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