It's interesting to see, how Amazon will fare in near future, due to recent change to e-commerce law by Indian govt.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/05/amazon-how-india-ecommerce-l...
I’d say that’s hyperbole. Neither of them are present here and if I were to guess judging by my own experience, I’d say that Amazon is still more popular.
Do you have hard numbers?
Of course neither of them hold a candle to the local eMag, but that’s only natural.
Slightly OT, I’m also curious how come no analyst is mentioning FB marketplace as a competitor to Amazon.
There are rumors Amazon will open officially soon, but they'll have a hard time if you ask me.
The expected investment also doesn't match Alibaba's, the Chinese have apparently come up with $1.1 billion while Amazon is coming with only half of that value, i.e. $600 million. But maybe they're doing better in Thailand or Vietnam.
In order to force use of the AU site they blocked sales from the US site to Australian customers, which caused endless irritation and frustration.
It seems that the relatively quiet launch and slow growth has been intentional. As long as Amazon maintains a decent level of investment here I think they will continue to grow and possibly eventually be dominant.
Only recently have they ramped up advertising and started putting their listings onto Google Shopping.
And Amazon is also big in Brazil, Mexico, Japan etc. I think it is suffice to say that my point wrt Amazon dominating global eComm is fairly well laid out. Well, except for "China".
Given that, I greatly doubt the veracity of their research.
It was quite startling for someone coming from a relatively small city in a sparsely populations part of Western Canada this was quite a surprise.
I had always assumed that given my remote location people that lived in densely populated regions would be better served by Amazon.
Absolutely disagree, their service is shockingly slow and the limited range is overpriced. They make up about 0.4% of Australian online sales.
I'm not sure where you got this impression from.
Where ? Certainly not in Indonesia, the largest population in south east asia. Nor in singapore, malaysia or philippines.
But I did notice at my last job in The Netherlands that people would often order technical gadgets and the like from Alibaba.
Russia is a very protected hyper nationalistic market, in exactly the same way China is. Their culture is segregated off from much of Europe in terms of being 'westernized.' Instead of westernized, it's a quasi separate, rather differentiated Russian culture (all the way down to the music). It's why Russia has Mail.ru, VK and Yandex, instead of eg Google dominating on search.
Ukraine is a partial extension of what is dominate in Russia, so for example VK and Yandex are very popular in Ukraine as well. Most of Ukraine fluently speaks Russian, and they've been culturally and politically dominated by Russia for a long time. This is why there has been a push by some prominent nationalist politicians in Ukraine recently ("Army, language, faith") to emphasize their own culture and language, and de-emphasize Russian culture and language. If you go to Kharkiv - Ukraine's second largest city, near the border with Russia - the people there often can't speak their native Ukrainian (they can usually read it), everything is in Russian.
I've mentioned it in another comment, too, but Amazon is not present in my Eastern European country (Romania), where Alibaba beats them by a large margin (even though they're also not officially launched here). I've just done a quick search and it seems Amazon is not winning it in Russia either, nor in Ukraine, to say nothing of India. As such, to say that they are winning "everywhere else in the world" is not really true, they're only winning in North America and some Western European countries (too lazy to search what really happens in South America or Africa).