India's Great Parcel Race
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India's Great Parcel Race
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#2e-commerce changed the way people buy things here in remote places in India. They could buy things that was not even in their dreams few years back. E-commerce advertisements cover most front pages of newspapers now. More startups are coming up in logistics space. Amazon, Alibaba etc has started investing here seeing the market potential. Logistics here is a big problem. Since local sellers are feeling the heat, they are doing everything they can to stop e-commerce players.
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#3e-commerce changed the way people buy things here in remote places in India. They could buy things that was not even in their dreams few years back. E-commerce advertisements cover most front pages of newspapers now. More startups are coming up in logistics space. Amazon, Alibaba etc has started investing here seeing the market potential. Logistics here is a big problem. Since local sellers are feeling the heat, they…
While there is improvement some local sellers can do they also are not getting a fair fight. E commerce giants are funded by massive amounts of VC money and selling products are unsustainable prices. That has lessened now but it is hard to compete if your competitor doesn't have to make money for a while.
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#4"India's per capita income (nominal) was $ 1570 in 2013."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India
So like 30-50 times less than a "western" country. :/
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#5"India's per capita income (nominal) was $ 1570 in 2013." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India So like 30-50 times less than a "western" country. :/
true - but the curve is not what you'd expect. Apartments in Bangalore cost half of what they do in San Jose.
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#6"India's per capita income (nominal) was $ 1570 in 2013." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India So like 30-50 times less than a "western" country. :/
India is a very divided country. So, if you are catering to top 10% of the population you are already in the ball-park of 100 million people, that pretty much beats out every Western country except USA. The number in middle class is about 400million, that is the number to focus at least for immediate future. The rest of 800 million, well, God Bless them!
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#7I am very to surprised to see article talking about Shopclues, which is notoriously famous for sending counterfiet items instead of genuine. You could buy pirated Windows or Xbox/PS game DVDs from that site.
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#8tldr: Distance: 1,865.9 km
Delivery Cost: 45 rupees ($0.70)
Modes of transport: Three
Time in transit: 32 hours 25 minutes
Total time: Two days, 19 hours, 6 minutes
That's pretty good.
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#9"India's per capita income (nominal) was $ 1570 in 2013." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India So like 30-50 times less than a "western" country. :/
India is a very divided country. So, if you are catering to top 10% of the population you are already in the ball-park of 100 million people, that pretty much beats out every Western country except USA. The number in middle class is about 400million, that is the number to focus at least for immediate future. The rest of 800 million, well, God Bless them!
... because India won't take care of them?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
India is a very divided country. So, if you are catering to top 10% of the population you are already in the ball-park of 100 million people, that pretty much beats out every Western country except USA. The number in middle class is about 400million, that is the number to focus at least for immediate future. The rest of 800 million, well, God Bless them!
... because India won't take care of them?
There is little justice in India if you do no have some kind of influence. So if you are poor = little real justice = yes, India currently doesnt care very well for their poor.