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Flipkart Big Billion Days 2025: Wrap-Up—Sales-Tax Reforms, Quick Commerce and “Trust Shield” Shape Growth

We present key insights from Flipkart’s Big Billion Days (BBD) 2025, which ran alongside major festive events in India. This wrap-up explores how GST reforms, rapid expansion in quick commerce and new post-purchase trust features helped Flipkart capture pent-up demand and set the tone for sustained momentum through Diwali and the holiday season.

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Disrupting Retail: Lessons from SHEIN and TEMU on Redefining Consumer Engagement and Supply Chain Innovation

At SACSC Congress 2025, Maxwell Kahn, President of Coresight Research, explored how ultra-fast fashion platforms like Shein and Temu are disrupting global retail. His presentation unpacked the strategies behind their rapid rise—agile supply chains, AI-driven personalization and real-time consumer engagement—and what it all means for the future of retail.

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Analyst Corner: The Shifting “Friction Gap” Between Stores and E-Commerce Is Benefitting Digital Channels, with John Mercer

In this week’s Analyst Corner, John Mercer, Head of Global Research and Managing Director of Data-Driven Research, discusses the “push and pull” effect we are witnessing, whereby digital channels are adding greater convenience as physical stores lose some of their competitive edge around convenience, service and immediacy.

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