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...Amazon, which is cutting 27,000 jobs globally in response to slowing sales growth, has shut down fledgling food delivery, online education, wholesale distribution and book publishing operations in India....
...The first opportunity for the wider public to participate in that growth was the listing in July 2021 of Zomato, a food delivery group and household name....
...Duff and Phelps, a management consultancy, estimated in March this year that because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which hit ticket and food sales and introduced costs for keeping players in a virus-free bubble...
...Shares in food delivery company Zomato, beauty ecommerce group Nykaa and insurance aggregator PolicyBazaar all rose from their issue price....
...Food-delivery company Zomato, which listed in July, overcame scepticism about its cash burn and valuation, with its stock doubling from its IPO price....
...Swiggy’s plans to diversify highlight the persistent struggle to build a profitable business in food delivery....
...Didi’s predicament contrasted with the July listing in India of Zomato, a food delivery group and the first of the country’s lossmaking tech companies to go public....
...Zomato and rival Swiggy, the two dominant food delivery players, have come to embody the breakneck growth of Indian tech start-ups....
...Food delivery company Zomato filed its draft prospectus in April seeking to capitalise on a sharp increase in online deliveries in India during the coronavirus pandemic....
...As the lockdown began, New Delhi decided to restrict ecommerce firms to delivering “essential items” such as food, personal hygiene products, cleaning supplies and medical products....
...“UK food is tough and deploying resources almost anywhere else probably has a greater chance of success.” Bernstein analysts called it a “gentle withdrawal out of the UK”....
...The person added that Walmart was planning to expand Flipkart into online food and grocery sales, from its current focus on consumer durables and clothing....
...In the past week alone it has secured a $200m stake in leading online grocery group BigBasket, while its payments affiliate Ant Financial agreed to pump the same sum into food-ordering app Zomato....
...Small food suppliers’ ability to deal directly with faraway customers through online platforms means India might even “miss the processed food revolution altogether”, speculates Rama Bijapurkar, who advises...
...The New Delhi government opened a potential route for Walmart into the retail sector this June, however, when it legalised 100 per cent foreign ownership of food retailers selling Indian produce....
...In India, the shift is hitting once feted sectors like online property, hotel listings and food delivery....
...Smaller Indian start-ups in areas like hyper-local food delivery will take even longer....
...Workers with hand-held computers read incoming orders for packaged foods, personal care products, cleaning supplies, and fresh produce, then pack the items into red delivery crates....
...In a liquor market dominated by whisky, he says the pleasure of a leisurely glass of wine from a vineyard in France, California or Australia, not to mention enjoying wine with food, has a long way to go...
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