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Friday, August 22, 2025
TopicOnline shopping

Topic: online shopping

Hotel bookings cost more on iPhones. That’s price discrimination—and it’s not always bad

While price discrimination undoubtedly increases a company’s profits, it also enhances overall consumer welfare.

‘Lucrative deals, stolen OTPs’ — Delhi Police IFSO unit busts interstate racket of ‘online fraudsters’

Victims were lured by ads posted in platforms such as BigBasket, DMart & Blinkit, say police. Once they clicked on links sent on mobiles, scammers stole OTPs to siphon off money.

Subsidised tomatoes now available on ONDC at Rs 70 per kg

Consumers can place their orders from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm daily and the delivery will be made the next day.

People in Tier-II cities spend twice as much of income on online shopping as Tier-I, finds survey

According to CyberMedia Research, consumers in Tier-II cities spent average of 2.5 hours/a week shopping online. GenZ are marginally more likely to shop online than Millennials.

Buy Kratom Online: Best Kratom Vendors To Buy From In 2023

Looking to buy Kratom? Discover a wide selection of high-quality Kratom products for sale. Buy Kratom online and experience its natural benefits.

Shop Online Affordable Quality Clothes to Maintain Stylish Wardrobe

We need to be sure that our new clothes would do justice to our sense of styling and that we feel comfortably confident when we are slipped into them.

Let’s go quickly through the fascinating journey of time & watches!

“The most precious resource is time; a moment gone will never be back.”

Product demos & sales via live video — e-commerce firms embracing new ‘live commerce’ tool

Live commerce in India is expected to be '$4-5 billion segment by 2025'. Currently, China has largest livestream shopping industry valued at $339.3 billion in 2021.

Store to door in 8 mins, but online grocery shoppers don’t care about speed. It’s price, quality

Quick-delivery apps may need to alter business models to compete with conventional ones, it says. 61 per cent of online customers are willing to wait 3-24 hours for their groceries.

If shopping is better than therapy, then get ready to grab the season sale

‘End of Season Sale’, ‘Holiday Offer’, and ‘Festive Sale’ are musical words for a diehard shopper who awaits mega-festive discounts. Hence, holidays are the ideal time for retailers to bring their best foot forward with exciting heavy discounts.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?