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Fashion e-tailor Myntra on Sunday said it recorded 1.3 lakh first-time shoppers from non-metros on the first day of its flagship End of Reason Sale (EORS), with customers from Jaipur, Lucknow and Patna placing the most orders in terms of value. According to experts, there has been a marginal increase in the average spending of online shoppers during the last festive season of Diwali and the growth in number of new customers has been key to the business growth of e-commerce platforms. "The opening day of the event saw 130k first-time shoppers coming from non-metros. Over half of the overall shoppers from the initial day of the fashion event were women," Myntra said in a statement. On the opening day, Bengaluru shopped the most among metros, followed by Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Pune. The top five non-metro cities that shopped in this period were Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Indore and Guwahati. "Men and women have flanked the platform with equal enthusiasm, with a multitude of shoppe
Fashion and lifestyle e-tailer Myntra expects around six million customers to shop from its platform during its annual festive season sale event starting on September 23, the company said on Thursday. Flipkart group company expects to create 16,000 job opportunities during the "Big Fashion Festival" compared to around 11,000 opportunities it created during the 2021 festive season sale. "This year's festive season is going to be special for everyone. After two years of celebrating festivals in a rather muted way, this year it is going to be much grander and bigger. During this edition of Big Fashion Festival, we are expecting around 6 million unique customers to shop during the event. We are geared to handle as many as 900 thousand concurrent users on the platform," Myntra CEO Nandita Sinha said in a statement. In 2021, the e-commerce platform had the capacity to handle 740,000 concurrent users. The company shared that it has also increased order handling capacity per minute to arou