Executive Summary

• This week’s note “From the Desk of Deborah Weinswig” discusses Amazon’s innovative delivery services, which now offer customers the option to have their purchased orders placed inside their home or parked car by a courier.
• Amazon is expected to be the leading US apparel retailer in 2018, according to a report from Morgan Stanley. The company had a 7.9% share of US apparel retail sales in 2017.
• Total UK retail sales value growth was 5.2% in March, the highest rate seen since last August, according to the Office for National Statistics. Volume sales growth was 3.1%.
• India’s technology industry is bracing itself for the next era of e-commerce warfare, which looks set to be waged and bankrolled by two gigantic corporations located halfway across the world: Amazon and Walmart.