E-commerce Discounts

Online smartphone sales cross offline numbers for first time ever in 2022

Several smartphone companies offered online-exclusive deals and discounts helping the e-commerce companies to sell more

Amazon Fab Phones Fest: Deal on Redmi K50i, Nord 2T, iPhone 14, and more

The Fab Phones Fest sale on e-commerce platform Amazon started on November 26. It will continue until November 29

Offline, online sales soar as shoppers clamour for best Black Friday deals

Retail brands and malls expect sales to grow by as much as 50% this time over the 2019 figures, when Black Friday as a concept began gaining momentum in India

Axis Bank sees 10-times growth in daily volumes in online shopping fest

Even as policy makers grapple with ways to revive demand, an online sale fest launched by Axis Bank offering 15 per cent discounts is witnessing a 10-times surge in daily volumes

Amazon and Cloudtail, Appario related as preferred sellers: CCI lawyer

Big e-commerce firms selling their own private labelled brands and inventory at discounts, High Court told

Amazon-Flipkart probe: Want to create level playing field, says CCI lawyer

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) lawyer told the Court that when big players give discounts, they incur losses for a short time, but this pushes the smaller players out

Lockdown 2.0: Zomato ends funding of discounts amid Covid-19 outbreak

Restaurants brace for price hikes through menu revision after lockdown

E-tailers jump bandwagon to boost sales with Black Friday offers

From Amazon to H&M, the Black Friday offers flooded people's emails and message boxes on smartphones in the country

Some e-commerce companies are indulging in predatory pricing: Piyush Goyal

Global economic outlook is facing grave challenges amidst growing protectionism and rising trade tensions, said Piyush Goyal

Deep discounting not part of ease of doing business, govt tells e-tailers

New Delhi/Bengaluru, 28 October Being allowed Predatory discounting and a conducive business environment are not the same thing, the central government plans to make clear to digital commerce entities. In the e-commerce policy it is preparing, this point will be underlined, say sources in the commerce ministry.'Deep' discounting has been a constant complaint of traders and offline (traditional) selling entities. "E-commerce players keep saying that the business environment needs to improve; it should be more open, so that more foreign investment comes in. Butm when you do a deep dive, their main bone of contention is around the discounts and sales they hold, and the protests around it. These two things are completely different and in the e-commerce policy, we will make this clear. We, under no circumstances, will allow or condone predatory pricing," said a senior in the ministry.The policy is, after delays, likely to be ready only next year. The policy might not only limit the ...

Amazon festival sale: Best deals on Samsung, Xiaomi and other budget phones

The Amazon Great Indian Festival sale started on September 29 and will continue until October 4

2% of Indians loyal to brands; discounts don't keep them hooked: Experts

While experts argue that the plethora of choices fosters disloyalty, reality is that building brand-consumer connections is getting difficult

Amazon and Indian trader group in public spat over discounted products

The issue has become one of the biggest trade irritants between New Delhi and Washington

Treating discounts as capex likely to increase tax liability on start-ups

Businesses - both online and offline - treat discounts as revenue expenditure