Indian mobile retailers call for Amazon probe, cap on online smartphone sales channelnewsasia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from channelnewsasia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Galaxy F62 launch sparks another round of complaints from offline retailers
AIMRA (the All India Mobile Retailers Association) remains unhappy with Samsung India’s alleged preferential treatment to online retail partners. Following the release of the Galaxy F62 in India through e-commerce partner Flipkart, the association has once again raised concerns over Samsung’s business methods as well as the future of the offline retail space as a whole.
In a letter addressed to Samsung India’s Managing Director Ken Kang, AIMRA is pleading for the survival of Indian offline retailers and highlights numerous points of contention including:
non-availability of stocks, unreasonable targets, the price difference between online and mainline market, other online offers like instant cashback, bundle offers etc.
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Amazon favoured big sellers on its India platform and used them to maneuver around rules meant to protect the country s small retailers from getting crushed by e-commerce giants, internal documents show.
New Delhi: It was early 2019, and senior Amazon.com Inc. executive Jay Carney was preparing for an important meeting. The former press secretary to U.S. President Barack Obama, Carney was scheduled to talk with India s ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C. In Delhi, the Indian government had just announced foreign direct investment regulations that threatened to disrupt Amazon s business in the world s second most populous country.
Amazon documents reveal company s secret strategy to dodge India s regulators thedailystar.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedailystar.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.