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Ecommerce

Meesho draws Nomura Reduce tag as valuation premium bites

Stock slips 5% after the broker flags premium to peers despite lower NMV growth, squeezing merchant acquisition budgets.

Ananya Rao · 27 Sep · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Flipkart Big Billion Days starts 9 October a day after Amazon

Both platforms lock the festive calendar and force brands to split inventory and ad spends.

Ananya Rao · 23 Sep · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

UP SHG products list on Amazon Flipkart Meesho

More than 3,000 village-made goods go live on major marketplaces, giving rural producers direct festive shelf space.

Ananya Rao · 17 Sep · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Flipkart creates 2.5 lakh festive jobs, adds 900 hubs

Walmart arm expands last-mile by 1.4 lakh roles ahead of Big Billion Days, squeezing smaller logistics players on rider supply.

Ananya Rao · 17 Sep · 4 min read

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Platforms

Flipkart launches Fashion Spotlight, targets 500 D2C brands

Marketplace programme arms Tier-2 fashion labels with video, live commerce and virtual try-on to cut discovery cost before festive.

Rhea Kapoor · 11 Sep · 4 min read

Ecommerce

Flipkart 2GUD launches Local format with Bengaluru mall

Value platform opens hybrid channel for traditional stores via influencer video and fulfilment, giving single-brand outlets pan-India reach without full D2C build.

Ananya Rao · 10 Sep · 4 min read

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Ecommerce

Festive e-com set for growth as quick commerce reshapes baskets

Infisum and Fynd data show D2C pre-Navratri orders already up and full-season GMV expected 35-40% higher, lifting dark-store throughput.

Ananya Rao · 8 Sep · 4 min read

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Opinion · Retail

Why volume fashion still eats premium’s lunch

Zudio-style sub-₹999 machines keep posting faster growth than curated premium floors even as Reliance and others chase margins.

The Desk · 24 Aug · 4 min read

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Supply Chain

Shadowfax, ElasticRun, and the Bharat mile the dark stores will not touch.

Someone still has to take a packet to a town that is not on a 10-minute map. That someone is having a better decade than the pitch decks admit.

Farhan Qureshi · 12 Aug · 5 min read

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Ecommerce

Meesho already won the customer everyone else is still pitching.

Value commerce is not a tier-2 story. It is the majority of Indian ecommerce, and it does not care about your 10-minute milk.

Meera Iyer · 10 Aug · 6 min read