e commerce

Sales volume in the e-commerce sector in India has recovered by over 90 percent as compared to its pre-lockdown level, said a report on Monday. The sector is predicted to fully recover and achieve the pre-lockdown order volume by the...

India may soon incentivise kirana stores which become part of the e-commerce ecosystem by converting their operations to handle both online and offline sales. The special package of incentives for the smaller format mom-and-pop stores is likely to be a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled e-commerce into the spotlight. Even post the crisis, online shopping is likely to take precedence over offline shopping, making decentralisation imperative for the sector. While this represents a real and immediate opportunity to drive...

More than three-fourth or 78 percent consumers in a survey conducted among a little over thousand people in more than 200 districts want the government to permit e-commerce platforms to deliver all goods beyond essential items. As per a survey...

The third edition of the nationwide lockdown started from Monday May 04. Unicommerce, India‘s leading e-commerce focused SaaS platform, released a report on the COVID-19 impact across e-commerce sectors in India. With the country now being divided into three...

Coronavirus has caused a significant impact on the way consumers shop and make payments. With social distancing rules in place, many of them have embraced contactless payments and digital wallets as a safer way to manage their money. According to...

With 'social distancing' likely to become a norm in the future, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to boost e-commerce and home delivery to salvage the Indian economy badly battered by the Covid-19...

The government should consider allowing e-commerce players to deliver non-essentials goods amid lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic, research firm CUTS International said on Monday. It said that the government's decision to permit e-commerce firms to deliver only essential goods will...

The government on Sunday prohibited e-commerce platforms from selling non-essential items during the lockdown, four days after allowing the companies to sell mobile phones, refrigerators and ready-made garments. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla issued an order excluding the non-essential items...

NITI Aayog is considering the integration of small and medium enterprises (SME) on e-commerce platforms and creation of an online repository of product offerings by the Indian SMEs and has sought EoIs for a feasibility study of the same. The...