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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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Amazon Prime Day India 2025: Preview—Capitalizing on E-Commerce Momentum; Unlocking Small-Town Potential Through Speed and Value

Uncover how Amazon is leveraging Prime Day 2025 to deepen its reach and competitiveness in India’s booming e-commerce market—and the key features setting this year’s shopping event up for success. We offer five essential insights on Prime Day, spanning Amazon’s reach to small towns, its use of AI (artificial intelligence) to enhance the shopping experience, and more.

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Amazon Prime Day 2025: Preview—Five Essential Insights on Consumers’ Shopping Plans

Amazon’s annual Prime Day shopping festival will be held during July 8–11, 2025, across 20 global markets, including the US. Leveraging proprietary US consumer survey findings, we present five essential insights ahead of the event, including how consumer interest in Prime Day compares with actual conversion, which product categories are set to dominate, and what brands can do to drive sales.

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Analyst Corner: Chinese Consumers Still Embrace International Brands—If Those Brands Deliver: Three Key Findings from a New Study, with John Harmon

In this week’s Analyst Corner, John Harmon, Managing Director of Technology Research, presents three insights on China e-commerce dynamics, drawing on data from the recently published China Online Consumer Brand Index (a study by Peking University, supported by Alibaba). Discover which international brands are most popular and what the study’s findings reveal about Chinese consumers’ online shopping preferences.

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