The Ministry of Home Affairs has opened up multiple services in areas which have been designated as green and orange zones, thereby opening ecommerce companies to operate non essential deliveries in such regions of the country.
It has specifically stated that e-commerce deliveries will be allowed only for essential items in the red zones, in a note released today. This means that in green and orange zones, such restrictions will not apply. In order to classify red green and orange zones, the government will primarily rely on whether COVID-19 positive cases have sprung up in that area or not.
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How COVID-19 Is Transforming E-Commerce
Stay-at-home orders will eventually be lifted state by state, but in the interim, there are millions of consumers creating and reinforcing new online buying behaviors and habits. In many families, online grocery, apparel, and entertainment shopping will replace store and mall visits permanently until a vaccine is available.
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Just as the latest approaches to personalizing web content, offers, pricing, and promotions adapt to each customers' unique preferences and buying history, account control and security must do the same. Customizing security for every online customer eliminates the friction of having the most loyal, VIP-level customers go through the same authentication steps as a new one.
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With the rise of the internet, the millennial consumer, mobile-money penetration, and a reported increase in Africa's middle-class disposable income, the African e-Commerce industry finds itself furnished with the ability to not only jump-start small businesses but also help large companies enter a market full of energized customers.
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Facebook's Investment In Reliance's Jio Platforms Moves Its ECommerce Dream Forward
On April 22, Facebook invested $5.7 billion for a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms, owned by Reliance Industries. The deal valued Jio at a pre-money valuation of $65.95 billion and makes Facebook the largest minority shareholder in the Indian telecom network. Some of the key takeaways for the deal are as follows:
Wüsthof Unveils New Ecommerce Website - Gifts & Decorative Accessories
Wüsthof, the 206-year old family producer of knives in Solingen, Germany, has unveiled its first ecommerce website . Still available through the company's leading retail partners, Wüsthof's full product assortment can now also be purchased in one online destination. The company, which produces cutlery for both professional and at-home chefs across the globe, is inviting customers to discover the world of Wüsthof through an informative new shopping experience.
CAIT Takes On Amazon, Flipkart With Ecommerce Portal For Retailers
Startup India and several technology companies will be supporting the platform with their solutions
Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) took the battle to Amazon and Flipkart by announcing its plan to launch bharatemarket, its own ecommerce portal next month.
CAIT has tied up with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) to plug millions of mom-and-pop or Kirana shops in the country to digital commerce. The traders association has clarified that the platform will be very different from the private ecommerce entities and will focus on retailers and customers.
Hope For Ecommerce; Ola Pro, JioMeet Launched On Lockdown Day 37
MeitY has taken cognizance of industry concerns around allowing IT and telecom products as essentials during the lockdown
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IT and telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad held a meeting on Wednesday with electronics manufacturers including major tech and manufacturing industry associations. The minister reportedly informed the bodies that the "requests regarding broadening the definition of essential goods to ICT products, retail /online sale of ICT essential goods, authorised sales and services of ICT essential goods have already been taken up with the ministry of home affairs."
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