A look at Amazon's efforts in India, getting users and merchants to buy and sell online, creating its own courier network, and more, as it battles with Walmart
Like many neighborhood stores in India, the Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Kirana is tiny and cramped. Tweets: @sub8u , @hem_arsenal , @alistairmbarr , @aaronrutkoff , @chafkin , @spencersoper , @manjunathks_ , and @bradstone . Thanks: @pelstrom Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : Amazon is a great company, no doubt! But saying Amazon “had to help teach all of India how to buy and sell online” is disingenuous! Also, $AMZN apparently spent $100 Mn+ in legal fees in India last year!http://www.bloomberg.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Hem / @hem_arsenal : “I don't know who Jeff Bezos is, but if he's made it convenient to shop from this village, he ought to be the richest” - An Indian kirana shop owner. https://www.bloomberg.com/... #longread Alistair Barr / @alistairmbarr : A telling anecdote for Facebook investors from this Amazon story: The first thing a young woman does when she gets her first smartphone is download WhatsApp https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW Aaron Rutkoff / @aaronrutkoff : “I hear every product shown on TV is available.” This @BW examination of how Amazon shopping translates itself to village life in India with ramshackle infrastructure is endlessly fascinating. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Max Chafkin / @chafkin : among the many scoopy details in this excellent @bradstone and @SarithaRai cover story: the story of the bidding war over Flipkart between Jeff Bezos and Walmart's Doug McMillon https://www.bloomberg.com/... pic.twitter.com/zXLf5AefkL Spencer Soper / @spencersoper : Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos learns a tough lesson about the occasional supply-demand imbalance for elephants in India. One of many rich anecdotes unearthed by @BradStone and @SarithaRai in a BW cover story: https://www.bloomberg.com/... pic.twitter.com/y9SVJ5Ygsd Manjunath KS / @manjunathks_ : “.Where is Amazon market?” he asks, furrowing his brow. “Are they opening near here?” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Brad Stone / @bradstone : Five years after publication of The Everything Store, i went to India to report on a new chapter: Amazon's battle to find another few hundred million online shoppers in India. a @BW cover with @SarithaRai https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW Thanks: @pelstrom