Amazon’s Rise leads to Consolidation of Online Retailers in India

Amazon India’s website traffic has doubled over the last two and a half years, and has now stabilised at approximately 200 million per month. Flipkart’s traffic has declined in the face of aggressive competition from Amazon, and is now running at roughly 120m per month, from 150m per month two and a half years ago. Snapdeal was the biggest loser, though, with traffic now running at ~25m per month, which is only a quarter of what it was at the start of the period. In fourth place, ShopClues seems to have held its own at the ~20m per month level, but its app base is much smaller than that of its peers.

The other side of the equation is the huge bias that the Indian consumer (more…)