India's online retail market is a $50 bn opportunity waiting to be realised

Indian online shoppers spent an average of $224 in 2017, which was less than a tenth of what the average user spent online in the US at $2,237 in the same year

Alnoor Peermohamed 

As India’s Internet penetration booms (390 million Internet users) thanks to rock bottom data prices ($0.17 per GB in 2017), the country’s online retail market is witnessing a massive surge. According to a joint report by Bain and Company, Google and Omidyar Network, the country’s online retail market is a $50 billion opportunity waiting to be realised.

In 2017, online retail in India clocked $20 billion in sales. While this paled in comparison to the US ($459 billion) and China ($935 billion), India exhibited the highest growth in online spending among major ...

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First Published: Fri, August 10 2018. 02:26 IST