HIGHLIGHTS Regulation amendments were made in June 2017 Companies were given a six-month deadline to comply The new rules came into effect from January 1 To protect online consumers, the Centre has made it mandatory from today for e-commerce firms to print not only the maximum retail price (MRP) on goods but also information like expiry date … Read More →
COIMBATORE, JAN 2: ANGADI 18, an intercollegiate festival shopping event conducted by the students of KCT Business School, is planned between January 5 and 7 at Prozone Mall in Coimbatore. This annual event is for the first time being conducted outside KCT campus, notes a release from the business school. The event acts as a … Read More →
Whether you call it 11.11, Double-11 or Singles’ Day, Alibaba’s big event Saturday (officially called the ‘11.11 Global Shopping Festival’) is nearly impossible to overhype. We’ve been previewing this year’s sale from a marketer and agency point of view this week, and this reporter will live-blogging from the epicenter Saturday. Before the virtual cash registers … Read More →
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “E-Commerce Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. The company has launched a shopping app that will serve as the hub of Adidas’ mobile experience, Business Insider reports. This is not Adidas’ first app, as it already has Confirmed, which is focused on limited-edition releases, and All-Day, its health and fitness … Read More →
There’s always a bit of worry attached to online shopping, which escalates quite a lot when shopping from a site that’s from China. We’ve all heard of horror stories about ‘Chinese maal’, and then there’s the matter of shipping, which takes longer than what we’re used to from Indian e-commerce sites. Thankfully sites like Ali … Read More →
Union Coop, the largest consumer co-operative in UAE, has launched an online shopping site offering a wide range of household and electronics goods from international brands. Marketing director Suhail Al Bastaki said the retailer had the www.unioncoop.ae website to keep up with retail trends and to offer convenient, quality service at competitive prices. The website, which is currently available … Read More →
Google has said it’s aiming to take the hassle out of online shopping for Android users by streamlining the entire checkout process with a new feature called Pay with Google. Compared to real-life shopping experiences, online checkouts are relatively instantaneous but they still aren’t without their annoying time-consuming quirks. You don’t need to queue behind the masses of … Read More →