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Re:Walmart Beats Amazon in $15B Flipkart Battle by gnufied on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:37PM (#17018147)
Amazon.in in India is a Marketplace. Unlike US, Amazon does not sell anything directly to consumers. You will see "Full-filled by Amazon". This in fact presents great opportunity to local and far flung businesses who did not had access to market.

The foreign direct investment in retail sector is not all open in India. Also as far as I know, most companies can't move huge amount of money to mainland easily. Double taxation is one thing but there are other problems that forces companies to invest locally.

Re:Walmart Beats Amazon in $15B Flipkart Battle by a-ve on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:05PM (#17018268)
Amazon does sell directly to consumers via their Cloudtail store, which is a JV between Amazon and Narayan Murty.

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/1EdpKoAY7GoZLh57pXuwkO/Am...

Re:Walmart Beats Amazon in $15B Flipkart Battle by enitihas on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:20AM (#17019411)
AFAIK, Flipkart operates under the marketplace model too.