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E-commerce giants dish out swanky offers this Women’s Day and Mahashivratri
MUMBAI: E-commerce giants normally lure customers through various discount offers throughout the year, and then there are festival and other special days when these companies offer customers exclusive discounts. This Mahashivratri and Women’s day companies have found yet another reason to attract more shoppers in order to boost sales and traffic onto their websites and apps by offering high discount rates. Some of these websites include E-commerce players like Flipkart.com, Paytm.com,Snapdeal.com, Cashkaro.com, Sendmygifts.com, Cubishop.com, Shoppingoutlet.in, Healthians. The online eyewear portal Lenskart.com is supporting women by donating 2.5 percent of total sale towards women empowerment.
Mobile e-commerce and virtual wallet company Paytm.com has come up with exclusive deals by offering flat 30 percent cashback on premium watch brands for women and up to 50 percent cashback on the bestselling products. Taking off from its ‘Big Billion Day’ a couple of years ago and last year, Flipkart.com has come up with Big Shopping Day from the seventh to the ninth of March and customers can avail up to 20 percent off plus an extra 10 percent off on transactions through SBI cards.
Cashback and coupons website like Cashkaro.com are offering high discounts between 50 and 80 per cent rates plus cashback and rewards on purchase of any item on Women’s day on any purchase through Amazon.in and Askmegrocery.com. In addition to this, Cashkaro is also offering upto10.2 percent reward on purchase of item through Flipkart.com.
For Mahashivratri, Askmegrocery.com and PepperTap.com have a flat 10 percent off on grocery items.
Customers can avail a deal of their choice on Snapdeal.com, while women’s apparel, footwear and accessories have up to 25 percent off. Beauty and personal care products are available with discounts between 50 and 70 percent.
In order to make women’s day special, Sendmygifts.com offers presents with discounts of up to 55 per cent for orders worth Rs 500 or more, plus 15 percent extra off on flowers, cakes and combos and 10 percent off on non-perishable products.
Cubishop.com, the marketplace for the consumer electronics industry is offering portable mini bluetooth stereo S10 music speakers for just Rs 350 and mono bluetooth headset worth Rs 275. Meanwhile Shoppingoutlet.in is offering beats pill multicolor bluetooth portable speaker OEM worth Rs 1,199 and JBL micro wireless speaker for Rs 1,399.
e-commerce
ONDC names Vibhor Jain MD and CEO; Rohit Lohia joins as CBO, Manoj Thakur as CTO
Leadership formalised as open commerce network sharpens focus on scale and user value
The Open Network for Digital Commerce has formalised Vibhor Jain as managing director and chief executive officer, cementing a leadership transition at India’s ambitious open commerce platform as it pushes for scale and relevance.
Jain, who had been serving as acting chief executive officer since April last year following the exit of Thampy Koshy, steps into the role with effect from 7th April , according to a report by The Economic Times. He previously served as chief operating officer at the government-backed network, which enables buyers and sellers to transact across applications through an open, interoperable system.
Setting out his strategy, Jain underscored the network’s differentiated architecture. “Going forward, we are concentrating on what open, interoperable infrastructure can uniquely enable, things that no single platform has the incentive or the architecture to do,” he said.
He added that the immediate priority is to widen ONDC’s impact across user cohorts often underserved by platform-led commerce. “My priority is to deepen the value ONDC creates for the people it exists to serve: kisaans, karigars, kiranas, gig workers, first-time investors, and daily commuters across India,” he said.
Jain also flagged leadership reinforcement within the organisation, noting that ONDC has “a strong and exciting leadership team in place”, with Rohit Lohia joining as chief business officer and Manoj Thakur as chief technology officer.
With over 18 years of experience spanning entrepreneurship and consulting, Jain brings a track record in technology-led, large-scale transformation programmes and internet businesses. At ONDC, he has been closely involved in shaping strategy and operations as the network seeks to move digital commerce away from platform-centric models towards an open network approach.
Before ONDC, Jain worked with JUMO, where he helped set up the fintech firm’s India operations, and led the India launch of Mobike, handling regulatory, policy and operational aspects of its market entry. Earlier, he co-founded Atlanta Healthcare, an air quality management company, and spent more than a decade in consulting roles at Andersen and EY, advising governments on public policy and technology-driven reforms, including work on the Aadhaar programme and tax systems.
The mandate is clear but the path is complex. As ONDC attempts to rewrite the rules of digital commerce, Jain now carries the burden of turning open architecture into mass adoption, in a market still dominated by platform power.
