12 ARTICLES

The ecommerce platform will be hard-pressed to justify its estimated $7-8 billion valuation—up nearly 2x from just 10 months ago—at a time of ho-hum growth and flagging profitability.
26 Oct 2025
Young shoppers seem to be going beyond loyalty and instead engaging with brands’ ethos. And businesses are taking note.
07 Jul 2024
Competition in India’s fashion e-commerce market is heating up, and the long-undisputed market leader has no time to lose if it wants to fight off India’s biggest retailer.
21 Aug 2023
Indian tech startups and consumer internet companies have—or will—hit a wall. We look at why, sector by sector.
09 Mar 2023
Working together finally, Walmart and Flipkart may have the key to unlock the massive wholesale grocery market.
11 Jan 2021
A combination of pent-up demand and rock-bottom prices may have served to boost demand initially but the second and third wave of sales were not as strong.
20 Nov 2020
Parking the headline “GMV” numbers for now, we analyse what the Diwali sales so far portend for Indian retail.
28 Oct 2020
The snubbing of Amazon and Jeff Bezos by the government is perplexing
22 Jan 2020
Probably not. But it’s still worth understanding what the antitrust watchdog has to say.
14 Jan 2020