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Shopping Festivals Are Buzzing The E-commerce Calendar

The e-commerce calendar in India has many substantial dates and massive sales that has created a pseudo sense of festivity with unbelievable deals and rates. Initially, there were events like Diwali and Christmas that had the gravity to attract massive sales and generate quantifying business. As the business developed, the commercialization of celebratory dates like Valentine’s day, Mother’s day and Father’s day has increased, resulting in the promotion for attractive deals. These important dates are setting the narrative for the industry and its behavior, platforms like Amazon and Flipkart have created their calendar events with its grand sales that are active for a week and is making record breaking growth. Flipkart Big Billion Day sale in India: The Big Billion Days sale in 2019 from 29th September to 4th October offered price cuts and bank discounts on credit cards, with options like buy now and pay later. According to  trak.in there was almost 50% growth in the number of ne

The Indian Shopping Search Engines

Indian e-commerce market is constantly evolving and growing exponentially. It has not reached the saturation point of western e-commerce sectors yet, hence the market has a long way to go when it comes to e-shopping. There are plenty of options to buy products online but very few resources to search and compare. The go to option is Google but it is not helpful to find the best website, deals or prices. This gap has created a huge opportunity for many startups to come up with shopping search engines. This is a booming area for small and big companies to enter and specialize. Plenty of these websites function as a price comparing platform rather than a search engine. The Indian market is in grave need of smarter platforms for product search and to find new websites. The market dictates that 175 million people will shop online in India by 2020. Since 100% FDI is allowed in the B2B e-commerce sector, the Indian e-commerce entity can grow to a whopping $84 Billion by 2021 according to IB