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Festive season sale: E-commerce firms witness over 15% growth in orders

Myntra is expecting over 8 million customers to shop during BFF. Last year, about 6 million customers shopped during the event

Gone shopping online: The best deals and discounts for festive season

E-commerce giants and niche websites are wooing customers to log in and splurge

Home safe in retirement, best online shopping: Top personal finance stories

Our best stories this week are about housing projects for the elderly and how to get the best festive season deals

E-commerce firms scale up tech efforts for upcoming festive season

Online retailers, startups are scaling up their tech and innovation efforts to handle demand from shoppers during festive season and make their shopping and payment experience seamless

Flipkart to host its 'Big Billion Days' sale event from October 8

Flipkart's chief rival, Amazon, is also hosting its flagship sale event, 'Great Indian Festival' (GIF), on October 8, with early access for Prime members beginning October 7

81% intent on festival season e-shopping: Nielsen Media India study

The study also revealed that for 68 per cent of consumers, Amazon.in is the go-to online shopping destination

Meesho enables over 500,000 job opportunities for upcoming festive season

Meesho sellers are projected to hire over 3 lakh seasonal workers as part of their requirements for the festive season

Meesho Mall gears up for the festive season, features an array of brands

Since its launch last year, Bansal said Meesho Mall has been growing by about 30 per cent month-on-month, processing an impressive over one crore orders in the past six months

Centre seeks public comments on draft guidelines on dark patterns

The government has sought public comments on draft guidelines for prevention and regulation of "dark patterns" which are nothing but tactics used by online players to deceive customers or manipulate their choices. The draft guidelines, issued by the Consumer Affairs Ministry, list various deceptive practices being adopted by online platforms in the nature of dark patterns which are against the interests of consumers. The ministry has sought public comments/suggestions on the draft guidelines within 30 days till October 5, an official statement said. According to the draft guidelines, "dark patterns" are defined as any practices or deceptive design patterns using UI/UX (user interface/user experience) interactions on any platform; designed to mislead or trick users to do something they originally did not intend or want to do; by subverting or impairing the consumer autonomy, decision making or choice; amounting to misleading advertisement or unfair trade practice or violation of ...

Amazon doubling same-day delivery facilities in push for speed: Report

The company said more than half of all orders placed by Prime subscribers in the 60 largest metropolitan areas during the most recent quarter arrived the same or next day

Simpl introduces 'pay after delivery' option to enhance trust of customers

Consumers can choose the Simpl pay after delivery (SPAD) feature at the time of checkout, which triggers payment only upon successful delivery of the shipment

Myntra plans restructuring to focus on private labels, 50 jobs to be hit

The changes are part of a new strategy deployed by the Flipkart-owned platform Myntra as it plans to focus majorly on select private labels instead of in-house brands

Indians most impatient online shoppers, expect deliveries in 2 hrs: Report

The report by Wunderman Thompson suggested that Indian consumers expect their deliveries to arrive in less than two hours

PhonePe's ONDC app Pincode goes live in 10 cities, to expand services

The company says it will expand category offerings and expand nationwide

Mobile app launched to promote products made by women in self-help groups

The eSARAS mobile app now enables customers to easily access the handmade products created by SHG members

Amazon most popular e-com site with highest orders from Bengaluru: Survey

Products reviews by influencers play a large role in driving online retail among gen z and millennials

Tier-2 city consumers spend 16% of income shopping online: CMR study

Tier-II cities, including Guwahati, Coimbatore and Lucknow amongst others, lead in terms of time spent on online shopping

Online retail market to grow 2.5x faster than offline till 2030: Deloitte

The overall offline market, however, will continue to be the bigger market, with a total value of $1,605 billion in 2030

44% feel e-shopping better for quality vegetables, 56% vote for offline

Nearly 44 per cent of respondents feel that quality of fresh fruits and vegetables is better on online shopping platforms while 56 per cent think offline is superior, according to a survey. Agritech startup Otipy, which sells fresh fruits and vegetables along with groceries in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai, has conducted an online survey of more than 3,000 people during May to find out the changing shopping behaviours of consumers, the company said in a statement. On affordability, the survey findings revealed that 50 per cent of respondents feel offline is cheaper while the remaining 50 per cent believe that rates are lower on online platforms. Regarding weightage, around 50 per cent feel both online and offline modes are accurate, while nearly 30 per cent feel online is better. Among other findings, 71 per cent of respondents expressed preference for online shopping. Around 36 per cent respondents want instant delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables and the remaining within ...

Amazon to waive off seller fee by 10% to celebrate its 10 years in India

Amazon noted in a blog post that the company's goal from the start was to digitise all businesses in order to offer the largest choice of things while leveraging technology