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A
PROJECT REPORT ON
“COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN FLIPKART AND AMAZON
INDIA”
Submitted for the partial fulfilment towards the

award of the degree in
Masters of commerce of
Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.171005.
SUPERVISED BY: SUPERVISED BY:

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE SONALI THAKUR
GOVT.PG COLLEGE DHARAMSHALA M.COM
ROLL NO: 180090020034
BATCH - 2018-2020
SEMESTER – IV
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
GOVERNMENT POST GRADUATE COLLEGE DHARAMSHALA
KANGRA HP 176215.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
It gives me immense pleasure to present this report on entitled
INDIA” in partial fulfillment of M.Com.
I take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to H.P.U for offering a
unique platform to earn exposure and knowledge in the field of Sales and
Marketing. First of all, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Coordinator of
M.COM DR. MADAN GULERIA and my project guide PROF. SAPNA
THAKUR, Professor of Department of Commerce for helping in me out
various aspects of my project.
SAPNA THAKUR SONALI THAKUR

(Professor) UNIV.ROLL NO.-180090020034
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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that SONALI THAKUR, student of M.com 4th semester of
GOVT. PG. COLLEGE DHARAMSHALA affiliated to HIMACHAL
PRADESH UNIVERSITY has completed her project under my supervision.
She made this project with my complete satisfaction and as per the requirement
of the course.
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PROJECT GUIDE
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DECLARATION
I, SONALI THAKUR under signed hereby declare that this project report on
INDIA’’ is record of authentic work carried out by me during the period from
20/05/2020 to 28/06/2020 and has not submitted to any other university or
institution for the award of any degree/diploma etc.
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Date:
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ABSTARCT
Internet became more powerful and basic tool for every person’s need and the
way people work. By integrating various online information management tools
using Internet, various innovative companies have set up systems for taking
customer orders, facilitate making of payments, customer service, collection of
marketing data, and online feedback respectively. These activities have
collectively known as e-commerce or Internet commerce. Online shopping
made so easy for everyone with their product variations and simple way to buy
things. An attempt has been made to critically examine various corporate and
business level strategies of two big e-tailers and those are Flipkart and Amazon.
Comparison have been done considering e-commerce challenges, their business
model, funding, revenue generation, growth, survival strategies, Shoppers’
online shopping experience, value added differentiation, and product offerings.
Both these big players made their own mark in India, but who is going to be
ultimate winner or be the top one is going to be. A comparative study of
Flipkart.com with one of the close competitor Amazon.com delivers the
information about the different strategies to succeed in e-commerce market and
different opportunities available in India.

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CHAPTER INDEX
CHAPTER TITLE PAGE NO
NO.
1. INTRODUCTION
2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND

THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
3. PRODUCT OR SERVICES
ALLIANCE
4. LOGISTICS
5. MARKETING STRATEGY
6. ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION
7. SWOT ANALYSIS
8. DATA ANALYSIS AND

INTERPRETATIONS
9. FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND
SUGGESTIONS
REFRENCE
ANNEXURE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
S.NO TITLE PAGE NO
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CERTIFICATE
DECLARATION
CHAPTER INDEX
ABSTRACT
CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 OBJECTIVES
1.2 PROBLEM DEFINITION
1.3 RESEARCH APPROACH
1.4 DATA COLLECTION
1.5 LIMITATIONS
CHAPTER-2
LITERATURE REVIEW AND
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW
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2.2 E-COMMERCE IN INDIA
CHAPTER-3
PRODUCT OR SERVICE ALLIANCES
3.1 FLIPKART
3.2 AMAZON INDIA
CHAPTER-4
LOGISTICS
4.1 VEHICLE TRACKING CRUCIAL IN E-
COMMERCE
4.2 FLIPKART
4.3 AMAZON INDIA
CHAPTER-5
MARKETING STRATEGY
5.1 FLIPKART
5.2 AMAZON
CHAPTER-6
ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION
6.1 2015 ADVERTISING STATISTICS FOR E-
COMMERCE FIRMS
6.2 E-COMMERCE ADVERTISING LANDSCAPE
TILL 2015
6.3 FLIPKART ADVERTISING AGENCY
6.4 AMAZON ADVERTISING AGENCY
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CHAPTER-7
SWOT ANALYSIS
7.1 FLIPKART
7.2 AMAZON
CHAPTER-8
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
CHAPTER-9
FINDINGS, SUGGESTIONS AND
CONCLUSION
9.1 FINDINGS
9.2 SUGGESTIONS
9.3 CONCLUSION
REFRENCES
APPENDIX
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LIST OF TABLES
TABL CONTENT PAGE
E NO. NO.
1 Age?
2 Gender?
3 Have you ever done online shopping?
4 How often do you shop online?
5 Which online site will you prefer?
6 How do you make payments when shopping online?
7 Which online service is more satisfied in terms of products,

customer care and delivery services?
8 How do you choose online shopping site?
9 Have your encountered any problems with online shopping

site? if yes, by which one
10 In terms of pricing, with which online shopping site you are
satisfied?
11 Which online shopping site will you suggest to your family and
friends?
12 On which occasions do you make purchase?
13 Does promotional activities impact your purchasing decision?
14 How confident are you that your personal information is kept

confidential when buying products online?
15 What kind of problem did you faced while doing online

shopping?

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16 Customer assistance after purchase from Flipkart is good?
17 Customer assistance after purchase from Amazon is good?
LISTS OF CHARTS
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TABL CONTENT PAGE

E NO. NO.
1 Age?
2 Gender?
3 Have you ever done online shopping?
4 How often do you shop online?
5 Which online site will you prefer?
6 How do you make payments when shopping online?
7 Which online service is more satisfied in terms of products,

8 How do you choose online shopping site?
9 Have your encountered any problems with online shopping

site? if yes, by which one
10 In terms of pricing, with which online shopping site you are
satisfied?
11 Which online shopping site will you suggest to your family and
friends?
12 On which occasions do you make purchase?
13 Does promotional activities impact your purchasing decision?
14 How confident are you that your personal information is kept

15 What kind of problem did you faced while doing online

shopping?
16 Customer assistance after purchase from Flipkart is good?
17 Customer assistance after purchase from Amazon is good?
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CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION

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1.1 OBJECTIVES
 To understand and estimate the consumer perception and factors affecting their
behavior for choosing e-commerce sites.
 To understand tactics and methods that are used by e-commerce players to grab the
customers in India.
 To know how consumers are evaluating e-commerce sites for their purchases.
 To understand the work flow of Amazon and Flipkart which are leading in India.
 To study complexities and barriers those are there in between e-commerce sites and
customers.
 To find out new opportunities and to succeed in those procedures.
1.2 PROBLEM DEFINITION
 In India e-commerce evaluated like a giant with huge opportunity and success rate.
There are so many big and small players in market. Are they really going to sustain in
market for a long time and is there success rate for them. What are customers
expecting from them and are they ready to fulfill their requirements. The study is to
understand both parties’ requirements and procedures.
1.3 RESEARCH APPROACH
1.3.1 EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
 Exploratory research conducted for a problem that has not been clearly defined.
Exploratory research helps determine the best research design, data collection method
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caution. Exploratory research often relies on secondary research such as reviewing
available literature and/or data, or qualitative approaches such as informal discussions
with consumers, employees, management or competitors, and more formal
approaches through in-depth interviews, focus groups and projective methods.
1.3.2 DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH
 The objective of descriptive research is to describe the characteristics of various
aspects, such as the market potential for a product/company or the demographics and
attitudes of consumers who buy the product with the help of primary data collected.
1.4 DATA COLLECTION
 The goal for all data collection is to capture quality evidence that then translates to
rich data analysis and allows the building of a convincing and credible answer to
questions that have been posed.
1.4.1 PRIMARY DATA
 Primary data was collected from various people and their opinion and information for
the specific purposes of study helped to run the analysis. In essence, the questions
asked were tailored to elicit the data that will help for study. The data was collected
through questionnaire to understand their experience and preference towards their
loyal company.
1.4.2 SECONDARY DATA
 To make primary data collection more specific, secondary data will help to make it
more useful. It helps to improve the understanding of the problem. Secondary data
was collected from various sources such as different business websites and published
papers.

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1.5 LIMITATIONS
 There was so much confidential data of companies that are not exposed.
 Survey was restricted to particular age group because respondents willing to fill are
college students.
 Analysis was done based upon personal opinion of respondents individually, not from
any focus groups or experts.

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CHAPTER-2
LITERATURE REVIEW
AND
THEORITICAL
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2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW
Sharma and mittal (2009) in their study “prospects
of e-commerce in India”, mentions that India is showing tremendous growth in the e-
commerce. Undoubtedly, with the middle class of 288 million people, online shopping shows
unlimited potential in India. The real estate costs are touching the sky. Today e-commerce
has become an integral part of our daily life. There are websites providing any number of
goods and services. The e-commerce portals provide goods and services in a variety of
categories. To name a few: apparel and accessories for men and women, health and beauty
products, books and magazines, computers and peripherals, vehicles, software, consumer
electronics, household appliances, jewelry, audio, video, entertainment, goods, gift articles,
real estate and services. Ashish gupta, senior managing director of helion venture partners
and one of the first backers of Flipkart as an angel investor: “Flipkart has been absorbing
companies that have some potential (letsbuy, myntra). In that process, some of the bets will
go wrong, for sure. But that is par for the course. The company (Flipkart) is consciously
taking bets that allow it to either grow or eliminate competition that reduces marketing spend
and improves economics.” Miyazaki and fernandez (2001) substantiated that the prior
experience was found to affect the intention and behavior significantly and in a variety of
ways. The results of this study imply that the technology acceptance model should be applied
to electronic commerce research with caution. In order to develop a successful and profitable
web shop, understanding customers' needs is essential. It has to be ensured that products are
as cheap in a web shop as purchased from traditional channels. According to sharma and
mittal (2009) in their study “prospects of ecommerce in India”, mentions that India is
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million people, online shopping shows unlimited potential in India. The real estate costs are
touching the sky. Today e-commerce has become an integral part of our daily life. There are
websites providing any number of goods and services. The e-commerce portals provide
goods and services in a variety of categories. To name a few: apparel and accessories for men
and women, health and beauty products, books and magazines, computers and peripherals,
vehicles, software, consumer electronics, household appliances, jewelry, audio, video,
entertainment, goods, gift articles, real estate and services. Samadi and ali (2010) compared
the perceived risk level between internet and store shopping, and revisit the relationships
among past positive experience, perceived risk level, and future purchase intention within the
internet shopping environment. Abhijit mitra. (2013), “e-commerce in India-a review”,
international journal of marketing, financial services & management research. Concluded that
the e-commerce has broken the geographical limitations and it is a revolution-commerce will
improve tremendously in next five years in India. D.k.gangeshwar. (2013),” e-commerce or
internet marketing: a business review from Indian context”, international journal of u- and e-
service, science and technology. Concluded that the ecommerce has a very bright future in
India although security, privacy and dependency on technology are some of the drawbacks of
e-commerce but still there is a bright future to ecommerce. Martin dodge. (1999),”finding the
source of Amazon.com: examining the hype of the earth’s biggest book store”, center for
advanced spatial analysis. Concluded that Amazon.com has been one of the most promising
e-commerce companies and has grown rapidly by providing quality service. Vijay
govindarajan is one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. Govindarajan,
coxe distinguished professor at dartmouth college’s tuck school of business and marvin
bower fellow at harvard business school, is also a best-selling author. The biggest opportunity
in India is e-commerce. Why? Three important factors will drive this: 1) mobile phone
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platform; 3) growth of consumerism with more Indians with higher disposable income. We
will see many new innovative business models in the e-commerce space in the next five
years. No doubt we will see new innovative high-growth companies—Indian equivalents of
alibaba.
2.2 E-COMMERCE IN INDIA
India had an internet user base of about 354 million
as of june 2015 and is expected to cross 500 million in 2016. Despite being the second-largest
userbase in world, only behind china (650 million, 48% of population), the penetration of e-
commerce is low compared to markets like the united states (266 million, 84%), or France
(54 m, 81%), but is growing at an unprecedented rate, adding around 6 million new entrants
every month. The industry consensus is that growth is at an inflection point. In India, cash on
delivery is the most preferred payment method, accumulating 75% of the e-retail activities.
Demand for international consumer products (including long-tail items) is growing much
faster than in-country supply from authorized distributors and e-commerce offerings. Largest
e-commerce companies in India are Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon India, paytm.
Market size. India's e-commerce market was worth about $3.9 billion in 2009, it went up to
$12.6 billion in 2013. In 2013, the e-retail segment was worth us$2.3 billion. About 70% of
India’s e-commerce market is travel related. According to google India, there were 35 million
online shoppers in India in 2014 q1 and is expected to cross 100 million mark by end of year
2016. Cagr vis-à-vis a global growth rate of 8–10%. Electronics and apparel are the biggest
categories in terms of sales. By 2020, India is expected to generate $100 billion online retail
revenue out of which $35 billion will be through fashion e-commerce. Online apparel sales
are set to grow four times in coming years.
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1. Large percentage of population subscribed to broadband internet, burgeoning 3g
internet users, and a recent introduction of 4g across the country.
2. Explosive growth of smartphone users, soon to be world's second largest smartphone
userbase.
3. Rising standards of living as result of fast decline in poverty rate.
4. Availability of much wider product range (including long tail and direct imports)
compared to what is available at brick and mortar retailers.
Competitive prices compared to brick and mortar retail driven by disintermediation and
reduced inventory and real estate costs. Increased usage of online classified sites, with more
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CHAPTER-3
PRODUCT OR SERVICE
ALLIANCE
3.1 FLIPKART
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Flipkart has launched its own product range under the name “digiflip”,
Flipkart also recently launched its own range of personal healthcare and home appliances
under the brand “citron”. During its initial years, Flipkart focused only on books, and soon as
it expanded, it started offering other products like electronic goods, air conditioners, air
coolers, stationery supplies and life style products and e-books. Legally, Flipkart is not an
Indian company since it is registered in Singapore and majority of its shareholders are
foreigners. Because foreign companies are not allowed to do multi-brand e-retailing in India,
Flipkart sells goods in India through a company called ws retail. Other third-party sellers or
companies can also sell goods through the Flipkart platform. Flipkart now employs more than
15000 people. Flipkart allows payment methods such as cash on delivery, credit or debit card
transactions, net banking, e-gift voucher and card swipe on delivery. Flipkart is presently one
of the largest online retailers in India, present across more than 14 product categories & with
a reach in around 150 cities and delivering 5 million shipments per month.
3.1.1 EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTS
Motorola mobility, previously owned by google but then
sold to lenovo, in an exclusive tie up with Flipkart launched its budget smartphone moto g in
India on 5 february 2014 more than 20,000 units were sold within hours of launch on Flipkart
after this Flipkart was looking for a long term tie up with motorola mobility. They also
launched their android smartphone, the moto x, on 19 march 2014. Flipkart later sold the
moto e, cheaper than moto g, from 13 may 2014. The sale of high-end smartphone xiaomi
mi3 produced by xiaomi tech was launched in India on an exclusive tie-up with Flipkart. The
first batch was sold out within 39 minutes on 22 july 2014, the second in 5 seconds on 29 july
2014. The sale was proceeded on pre-registration mode where more than 150,000 buyers
booked for the 5 august 2014 sale. This got sold off in less than 2 seconds. Following this
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xiaomi tech sold 20,000 units in the next sale on 12 august 2014. On 2 september 2014
Flipkart held a flash sale of the xiaomi redmi 1s budget android smartphone which was
launched in India in july 2014. 40, 000 units priced at Rs5999 each were sold within seconds.
A further 40,000 units were sold within 4.5 seconds on sept 9, 2014. The third redmi 1s sale
on sept 16, 2014 sold 40,000 units in 3.4 seconds; in the 4th round of sale of redmi 1s, 60,000
units sold in 5.2 seconds on sept 23, 2014. On 30 september 2014 60,000 units sold in 13.9
seconds. Redmi note in India exclusively through Flipkart; 50,000 units sold in 6 seconds on
2 december 2014. In july 2014 Flipkart launched its own set of tablet, mobile phones &
phablet. The first among these series of tablet phones was digiflip pro xt 712 tablet. In july
2014 Flipkart launched its first networking router, under its own brand name named digiflip
wr001 300 mbit/s wireless n router. In september 2014 Flipkart launched its in-house home
appliances and personal healthcare brand citron. The label includes a wide range of cooking
utilities and grooming products.
3.1.2 ACHIEVEMENTS IN E- COMMERCE
In september 2015, sachin bansal and binny bansal
entered forbes India rich list debuting at the 86th position with a net worth of $1.3 billion
each. Co-founder of Flipkart, sachin bansal, got entrepreneur of the year award 2012-2013
from economic times, leading Indian economic daily. Flipkart.com was awarded young turk
of the year at cnbc tv 18's 'India business leader awards 2012' (ibla). Flipkart.com- got
nominated for Indiamart leaders of tomorrow awards 2011.
3.1.3 FAILURE IN MUSIC INDUSTRY
In october and november 2011, Flipkart acquired the
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websites mime360.com and chakpak.com. Later, in february 2012, the company revealed its
new flyte digital music store. Flyte, a legal music download service in the vein of itunes and
Amazon.com, offered drm-free mp3 downloads. But it was shut down on 17 june 2013 as
paid song downloads did not get popular in India due to the advent of free music streaming
sites.
3.1.4 ACQUISITIONS
 2010: weread, a social book discovery tool.
 2011: mime360, a digital content platform company.
 2011: chakpak.com, a bollywood news site that offers updates, news, photos and
videos. Flipkart acquired the rights to chakpak's digital catalogue which includes
40,000 filmographies, 10,000 movies and close to 50,000 ratings. Flipkart has
categorically said that it will not be involved with the original site and will not use the
brand name.
 2012: letsbuy.com, an Indian e-retailer in electronics. Flipkart has bought the
company for an estimated us$25 million. Letsbuy.com was closed down and all traffic
to letsbuy has been diverted to Flipkart.
 2014: acquired myntra.com in an estimated ₹ 20 billion (2,000 crore, about us$319
million) deal.
 2015: Flipkart acquired a mobile marketing start-up appiterate as to strengthen its
mobile platform.
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Amazon is the largest internet based company in the united states.
Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling dvds, vhss, cds,
video and mp3downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,
food, toys, and jewellery. The company also produces consumer electronics notably, kindle,
fire tablets, fire tv and phone and is a major provider of cloud computing services.
Amazon has separate retail websites for united states, united kingdom & ireland, france,
canada, germany, the netherlands, italy, spain, australia, brazil, japan, china, India and
mexico, with sites for sri lanka and south east asian countries coming soon. Amazon also
offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. In the year
2011, it had professed an intention to launch its websites in poland, and sweden. In early june
2013, Amazon.com had launched their Amazon India marketplace without any marketing
campaigns. In july, 2013, Amazon had announced to invest $2 billion (rs 12,000 crores) in
India to expand business, after its largest Indian rival Flipkart too had announced to invest$1
billion.
3.2.1 EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTS
The Amazon kindle is a series of e-readers designed and
marketed by Amazon.com. Amazon kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download
and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to
the kindle store. The hardware platform, developed by Amazon subsidiary lab126, began as a
single device and now comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with e ink electronic
paper displays, and android-based tablets with color lcd screens. All kindle devices integrate
with the kindle store to acquire content and as of february 2016, the store has over 4.3 million
e-books available in the us. The oneplus one launched as an Amazon exclusive in India last
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year, but now the device is available for purchase on rival e-commerce store Flipkart. Moto g
(gen 4) and moto g plus (gen 4) will be available exclusively on Amazon.
3.2.2 ACHIEVEMENTS IN E- COMMERCE
On the mobile app side, Amazon had
the fastest growing app download rate in 2015. In october alone, downloads increased 200
per cent. Amazon web traffic was the highest in october as per comscore data, at 30 million
visitors. Amazon active customers have gone up 230 per cent year on year. The awards were
conferred at etailing India's flagship conference and exhibition 2014, an event that brought
together major stakeholders in the retail and e-commerce business in the country. The "path-
breaking debut of the year" award went to Amazon.in.
3.2.3 FAILURE
Amazon starts using India post and screws up its delivery system in India.
At the time when the competition among online shopping portals in India is at its highest
level possible and each player is pooling in millions from funding’s and trying to beat each
other with never-before discounts and amazing services, Amazon has taken the worst step
ever possible. Amazon India has chosen India post as its primary delivery partner and all
“Amazon fulfilled” orders are now being shipped through India post. Anyone who lives in
India or has some experience with the postal system in India needs no introduction about
India post.
3.2.4 ACQUISITIONS
It’s no secret that e-commerce giant Amazon has been betting on India as
one of its next big markets outside the u.s. The company is not only investing capital in the
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region, but also acquiring startups to help expand its presence in the country. On tuesday,
Amazon announced it had acquired Indian payments company emvantage payments pvt. Ltd.
Amazon did not disclose the acquisition amount. Similar to stripe or paypal, emvantage
allows online merchants to accept credit and debit cards. The company also allowed
merchants to set up their own branded pre-paid debit cards and mobile payments. In order to
differentiate itself, company acquired many it & ecommerce start-ups like pets.com,
audible.com, junglee.com, imbd.com, zappos.com, woot etc.
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CHAPTER-4
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Speed of delivery is as important as the product quality for a customer. It would not be wrong
to say that logistics could be the defining factor for success of e-commerce companies in
retaining their customers. Indian logistics market itself is estimated to grow at a cagr of 12.17
per cent by 2020. Innovations are very important in this sector, as the demand is always for
more reach and faster shipping at lower costs. Yet, the companies will need to invest in
automation, while utilizing existing resources well.
COMPANY MAJOR NEW PARTNERSHIPS SERVICES

DEVELOPMENTS IN LOGISTICS LAUNCHED
IN 2015 IN 2015
> Ekart becomes > Map My India > Nearby App

independent for Grocery
FLIPKART delivery
> WS Retail required > Blackbuck
> Qikpod
AMAZON > Pickup now > Partnering with > Kirana now
available in NGO run by with
5kirana
50 cities BASIX stores in
Bengaluru
4.2 VEHICLE TRACKING CRUCIAL IN E-COMMERCE
Vehicle tracking
plays a significant role in providing necessary control and effective route planning for faster
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delivery. Since the logistics market is highly unorganized in India, underutilization of
resources is not surprising. Increasing adoption of technology in operations is essential to
keep up customer satisfaction. Amazon added that fast, reliable and resourceful internet
connectivity across devices will help us use technology better for vehicle tracking.
Flipkart benefited by its investment in blackbuck in capturing data on vehicular movement
and utilization, and utilizing the data for better planning. “the efficiency improvement on
information gathering and orchestration is a primary focus area for us in the next year as
well”. Logistics solutions provider loginext–which caters to paytm, myntra and Amazon
among others– even, provides ‘heat maps’ for giving information on those areas where
maximum delays are happening. Loginext working with cold chain logistics service
providers for delivering perishables. Our scheduler takes input from the system about the
products being transported and accordingly schedules the deliveries. Also, the temperature
and other settings required for a particular product could be set via their app used by delivery
boys.
4.3 FLIPKART
1. Delivery within two days: the first few e-commerce web sites broke the trust of many
Indian customers by not delivering the order product on time. Flipkart realized this
problem and in order to bring the customer back to on line shopping it came up with
idea of delivering the product in 2 days and if there is a delay then the customer is
paid interest on the value of product.
2. Thirty days return policy: in order to satisfy the Indian customer after the product is
delivered, Flipkart came up with idea of providing thirty day return policy. This is
done to ensure that the product delivered to the customer is not faulty.
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3. Card swipe on delivery: Flipkart realized that most of Indian customers are not
comfortable sharing their credit card details online, as there is always a risk of fraud.
For solving this problem it came up with the idea of card swipe on delivery. The
delivery guy brings the card swipe machine so that all the transaction happens before
customer.
4.2.1 LOGISTICS PARTNER
E-kart provides logistic solutions for Indian e-commerce giant
Flipkart. Flipkart today is 3 companies: ws retail, which is the primary retailer on
Flipkart.com, ekart logistics, the shipping partner for ws retail and others, and Flipkart itself,
which builds, maintains and runs the marketplace. Flipkart tied up with partner stores that act
as alternative delivery channels (such as ecom express, blue dart, gatti etc), so that customers
can pick up their shipments at their convenience. “by bringing together core capabilities of
iot, devices, data and automation, we have started implementing the automation technology
to pick and move packages to designated picking station, among several other applications
that make warehouse processes quicker and smoother.
4.2.2 PROCEDURE
Flipkart team will map their supply chain end to end and know
exactly how many hours and minutes would it take for the item to reach from one step to
next. E.g. How long would it take to pick an item in our fulfillment centre (fc), how much
time would it take to pack it and finally how soon can them handover to the logistics partners
for transport? Then they proceeded to do a thorough analysis and optimization to achieve the
best-possible timelines for each step. In logistics, they needed to know the exact transport
connection timings with their transport time and reliability. They had to work closely with
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vendors/airlines to ensure reliable connection and delivery of in-a-day packages without any
offloading. In fact, there were some airline partners which were piloting their express
delivery capabilities along with their pilot for in-aday. Airlines were even helping our
partners grow. In the last mile logistics, they had to ensure that the delivery is attempted
within the promised time without fail and had dedicated field executives to guarantee the
delivery.
4.2.3 TECHNOLOGY USED
To promise in-a-day guarantee to the customers, Flipkart
developed a new product called promise engine. This engine knew all about our fulfillment
capabilities and thus exactly where the item would be shipped from (depending on seller's
inventory location). Hence, it could calculate an accurate promise date for the customer.
This engine also needed to be able to provide multiple delivery speed options to customers to
choose from. Once an order is placed, the fulfillment system gave an exact hour and minute’s
deadline to fcs to process the item. This deadline also accounts for the transport connection
between the source and the destination. The deadline feature helps us to ensure seamless
processing of both in-a-day and regular orders. Flipkart claims that its algorithm on routing
makes delivery and pick-up more accurate and faster than anyone else in this business.
Flipkart’s investment in mapmyIndia has helped the company too. Ekart spokesperson said:
“the accurate address data for both sellers and buyers will allow us to better schedule
deliveries and pickups.”
4.3 AMAZON
Amazon India, the company received 65 per cent orders from tier ii and
iii cities in 2015. To establish rural distribution centers in rural India, Amazon has been
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training teams in packaging, checking shipments, tracking deliveries through a mobile app,
route planning to make deliveries on time etc. Many of these centers have witnessed a five-
fold increase in the number of deliveries. Amazon has a ‘service partner’ programme too for
last-mile delivery in remote areas. “budding entrepreneurs in these areas act as Amazon.in’s
local distribution network providers and create the last-mile delivery footprint. This
programme now covers more than 100 satellite towns and tier ii and iii towns and villages.
4.3.1 LOGISTIC PARTNER
Cloudtail India pvt. Ltd, a joint venture between Amazon.com
inc. And n.r. Narayana murthy’s catamaran ventures, has become the biggest seller or
merchant on Amazon India’s platform, underlining how the world’s largest online retailer has
used loopholes in the law to deploy a mix of the marketplace and the direct-selling business
model in India. Cloudtail is now the key growth driver for Amazon India, generating at least
40% of the company’s sales in some months, three people familiar with the matter said.
Cloudtail is particularly dominant in electronics and fashion sales, two of the three largest
categories for Amazon India (promoted by Amazon seller services pvt. Ltd). Since it
launched as a seller on Amazon in july 2014, cloudtail has expanded aggressively. Its capital
was increased to rs.500 crore last month from just rs.500, 000 last july, according to
documents available with the registrar of companies (roc). The equity capital has been
pumped in jointly by Amazon asia and catamaran through an entity called prione business
services pvt. Ltd. Apart from the rs.500 crore in equity capital, cloudtail has access to secured
loans totaling rs.300 crore, roc documents show. Atsl will be one of the logistics partners for
Amazon's Indian marketplace.
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4.3.2 PROCEDURE
Amazon has set up a logistics company in India to deliver products
directly to consumers, opening a new front in the battle for top honours in the country's fast-
growing online retail industry. Amazon transportation services private limited, a subsidiary of
us-based Amazon, will ship goods from sellers who transact on the company's online
marketplace in India. Such a service is already on offer from Flipkart through logistics
company ekart, and snapdeal, which bought a stake in delivery firm gojavas last week. The
logistics arm has been set up to aid in lastmile delivery as products can be shipped faster.
Amazon currently operates nine fulfilment centres, ecommerce jargon for warehouses, in
eight Indian states. It was the first online marketplace to offer two-day and one-day
guaranteed delivery in India, a norm in the us market. Amazon India also recently launched
easyship, an assisted shipping platform for 12,000 out of its 20,000 sellers, a platform which
the company has now taken global. With easyship, our sellers can now choose their courier
partners, and ship even on the same day. More than 60% of our customers are eligible for
next-day shipping on products fulfilled by Amazon. Amazon has struggled with deliveries in
cities where snarl-ups are frequent and road signs unreliable. In response, firms have set up
logistics networks and use motorbikes instead of trucks. Another service introduced in India
in may and considered for export to other markets, seller flex, allows sellers to have the
flexibility to store goods and ship them to customers on their own, instead of routing them
through Amazon. Amazon provides technology and training to ensure goods are packed,
labelled and delivered as the company would. While Amazon in developed markets may not
want to tweak its model for best selling goods, analysts said, it could consider the made-
inIndia seller solution to cut down on warehousing and delivery costs for thousands of “non-
core” products which are offered, but infrequently bought. “Amazon is becoming a lot more
flexible about how it services its customers.
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4.3.3 TECHNOLOGY USED
Amazon.com inc said it has acquired Indian payments
processor emvantage payments pvt ltd for an undisclosed sum. Emvantage's employees will
join Amazon's India unit that will use the company's technology on its e-commerce website,
Amazon said in a statement. Online retailer Amazon.com inc. Is localizing its technology
operations in India by freeing up its engineers to launch new features and customize its
smartphone app for shoppers. These changes have significantly improved both the company’s
user addition and retention rates. More shoppers installed Amazon India’s smartphone app
than any rival’s app in the last three months of 2015, the online retailer said, citing data
compiled by app annie, an analytics company. Downloads of Amazon India’s shopping app
tripled in the key shopping month of october compared with the year-ago period. These
numbers are significant as a majority of online shopping in India is expected to happen on
smartphones over the next five years. Already, Amazon and its rivals Flipkart ltd and
snapdeal (jasper infotech pvt. Ltd) get more than 70% of their traffic from smartphones.
Amazon’s tech expertise in consumer-facing products, predictive analytics, supply chain,
among other areas is one of the reasons it is catching up fast with Flipkart and snapdeal.
Another change was the sign-up process for mobile customers. “the sign-up process was you
enter the email, then password, then you verify it, etc—that was too much. Now, we pre-
detect the mobile number and the new user only has to enter a password. You get an otp,
which is read and entered automatically. This is another feature we have opened up in other
markets. Overall, the goal is to understand where there is friction for the customer and then
eliminate that. Initially, however, Amazon adopted most of the features of its global app in
India. Those features included things such as barcode scanning, which were of no use to
Indian shoppers. Apart from irritating customers, the features also caused the app to become
very heavy in terms of taking up space on smartphones.
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CHAPTER-5
MARKETING STRATEGY
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5.1 FLIPKART
Flipkart's business model is much deeper and much expansive that could possibly elaborate
here.
However, a few key points -
 Rationalized supply chain - inbound logistics
 Strategic warehousing and distribution capability - operations
 Well aligned fulfillment process - outbound logistics
All the three processes are extremely well integrated - first by a sound strategy, around which
the organizational structure is built. So they have a strategy, and a complementing structure to
support their strategy. The third critical success factor for Flipkart is the technology as an
enabler. A strong information systems is at the core of the organization, which drives
visibility and end-to-end integration across their supply chain processes (inbound - operations
- outbound) resulting in a well lubricated efficient machine.
Flipkart, must be seen as a logistics company rather than a retail business. Although it sells
products to consumers, and hence is academically classified as a b2c business, the core of the
business lies in its efficient logistics, which allows it to sell products at attractive prices.
However, its competitive advantage is not in its retailing capabilities. Infact that aspect of the
ecommerce business is easily imitable and hence not sustainable. The sustainable competitive
advantage of Flipkart, lies in its logistics and operations infrastructure - which has a very high
barrier to entry: owing to its extensive capital investment and difficult to replicate strategy
structure-culture mix.
Cons: potential threat of the original replacing the imitated.
It is important to reflect upon the fact that its founder members (the bansal's) have had an
early stint with Amazon and have successfully modeled Flipkart's business on Amazon
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strategy. So, it would be fair to say that Flipkart imitated Amazon's model to an extent.
However, owing to governmental regulation and international trade barriers (read retail fdi
restrictions), Amazon has not yet been able to compete with Flipkart on an even keel.
(Amazon operates as a marketplace rather than a retailer). Amazon has all the infrastructure,
culture, and technology enablers in place that Flipkart has - and on a much larger scale. One
other thing that they have is huge financial muscle power - much larger than what Flipkart
has. And the moment when these restriction on fdi in retail are lifted, Amazon will be a major
threat to Flipkart. And all these acquisitions that Flipkart has been making, is to bulk up and
brace up for the competition it faces.
5.1.1 MARKETING MIX OF FLIPKART
Product in the marketing mix of Flipkart -
Flipkart is an online retailing industry and started its operations with the sale of books. For
two years, it sold only books through its website as the management and shipment of books
was much easier. After its expansion, it started dealing with products like air coolers,
washing machines, air conditioner, life style products, stationary supplies, cell phones,
computers, calculators, microwave ovens, water purifiers, laptops, cameras, audio players,
products relating to health care, dishwashers and e-books. Products sold on Flipkart have the
same warranties of the brand if sold outside in a showroom. It has recently launched its
personal product range called “digiflip”. Under this brand, it offers products like computer
accessories, camera bags, headphones and pen drives. In july, Flipkart introduced its own
tablet phones and networking router under its personal range “digiflip”. On february 5, 2014
in a special tie up with motorola mobility, Flipkart has provided a platform for the launch of
‘moto g’. Online shoppers went crazy with the unveiling of this smart phone. This awe-
inspiring response resulted in the sales of nearly 20,000 mobiles in a few hours. Continuing
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their association,‘moto x’, an android smartphone, was introduced on march 19. On may
13,‘moto e’was launched at the same site triggering the same response. Continuing this
success story
Flipkart in a tie up with xiaomi techintroduced ‘xiaomi mi3’ on its platform. In the first phase
on22nd july all the phones were sold in just 39 minutes and in the 2nd phase on 29th july the
sold out was complete in only 5 seconds. On 5th august the sale was completed in just 2
seconds.
This amazing response and hyper mania has helped in giving Flipkart an immense lift up.
Place in the marketing mix of Flipkart - Flipkart functions entirely in India and it has its
headquarters in the garden city of bangalore in karnataka. It is owned by a singapore based
company and is registered over there. According to India’s foreign policy, a foreign company
is not allowed e- retailing over here. Therefore, in India, Flipkart sells the merchandises
through an Indian company ws retail. Flipkart also provides its own platform to other
companies who are interested in selling their goods. The website is very easy and hassle free.
Browsing, keeping track of products, getting reviews, ordering goods and payment methods
are very convenient for the individuals. At first Flipkart started its operations on the
consignment model in which they personally bought the book and couriered it. Later they
opened many warehouses where the goods were stored safely. The first warehouse was
opened in bangalore and later in delhi, mumbai, chennai, hyderabad, pune, noida and kolkata.
As of today, more than five hundred suppliers are working for Flipkart. At least 80% of the
orders placed are handled and controlled via warehouses. Shipping companies and courier
companies are the real mediators in this setup. The quick and well-organized service is the
reason why the company has been able to put its mark on the Indian market. Their delivery
network is spread over thirty-seven cities with delivery being possible in any nook and
corner. Price in the marketing mix of Flipkart - though Flipkart started its venture with an
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investment of just inr 400,000, today its net worth is nearly 1billion dollars as its sales are
increasing day by day. It still earns revenue of 50% from selling books online. Electronic
commerce has become a huge hit because of Flipkart. Its price policy is very flexible because
of online transactions. Amount to be charged is determined after looking at the innumerable
expenses like transport expenses, supplier expenses, packaging costs, courier charges,
shipping cost, office expenses, maintenance expenses, discount allowances, depreciation,
taxes, advertisement expenses and many other expenses. Discounts up to 35% are allowed
periodically to boost up the sales and maintain competitive prices. For payments, Flipkart
allows credit card transactions, cash payment after delivery, transaction through debit card,
by swiping card on delivery, vouchers available as e-gift and net banking. Promotions in the
marketing mix of Flipkart - Flipkart has changed the concept of multi brand retailing of
products through internet in India. Its huge success has proved to be an inspiration for other
companies. It operates mostly through mouth advertising. The satisfied customers have been
their best promoters. To have a firm grip on the online world Flipkart has used the services of
google ad-words and seo. These marketing tools have made them household names.
Downloading the exclusive app of Flipkart helps in getting alerts about the current offers,
order status, price drops, recent launches and various gift coupons. Flipkart has also taken the
help of creative and interesting advertisements so that an awareness and trust is generated for
their website amongst the people. Their first campaign was shown on tvc with the concept
that books can be delivered with just a single click. Recently an ad has been launched to
increase the social visibility where the tag line is “no kidding no worries”. Trained
individuals are hired to fulfill their responsibilities adequately. The systematic planning and
level of effort undertaken to reach such heights is commendable.
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5.2 AMAZON
5.2.1 SEGMENTATION
E-commerce giants like Amazon uses demographic &
psychographics segmentation to segment the markets. Amazon’s segmentation is based on
actual purchase behavior: not what people might have expressed interest in, but what they
actually did. Amazon’s micro-level segmentation targets each customer individually,
allowing the company to convert visitors into long-term, high-value customers. Customer
segmentation often involves creating personas who will buy in a certain way & certain
products. Similarly Amazon targets the middle class & upper class people who have got
hands on experience in the basic technology but don’t have time or prefer convenience over
shopping from the physical outlets. Amazon has successfully positioned itself as a glocal (go
global act local) e-commerce giant where one can buy anything & get it delivered at any
remote locations. Using the catchphrase #aurdikhao in its most recent campaign in India, it
has further helped them carve a distinct space in the consumer’s mind.
5.2.2 MARKETING STRATEGY
In order to differentiate itself, company acquired many it & e-
commerce start-ups like pets.com, audible.com, junglee.com, imbd.com, zappos.com, woot
etc. Which helped them in providing high value to their customers using existing technology
of the acquired partners at low cost? Amazon has also achieved economies of scale through
extensive product offerings which include electronics, toys and games, apparels, diy and
many more. These offerings help Amazon to keep its prices low thereon passing on the
benefits to the consumers. Amazon’s robust customer centric approach to analyse the
customer buying behavior based upon preferences has helped them to have competitive edge
over their competitors. More than 50% of the consumers are the repeat buyers at
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Amazon.com. Furthermore, Amazon is one of the longest players to be present in the online
sector and has a solid hold in European countries and us. This bottom line is helping the
company to expand in new markets.
Brand equity in the marketing strategy of Amazon – from being merely an e-book provider to
emerging as the 2ndlargest e-commerce company in the world, Amazon.com has steadily
increased its spending on advertising and promotion to make its brand stronger and have a
higher brand equity. By april 2015, the brand of Amazon.com was worth us$ 176 billion. “a
brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do
hard things. With more than 55% repeat buyers, the numbers tells everything about the brand.
It is among 13 world’s most valuable brand” (forbes list).
Competitive analysis in the marketing strategy of Amazon –short listing the competitors of
Amazon depends on what business sector of Amazon is being considered. Apple would be
the largest competitor when considering book or content related delivery such as books,
movies, magazines, and audiobooks. The itunes store will always be a threat to the Amazon
store because of apples devices like the ipad, iphone, and macbook. When considering web
services google would emerge as the largest competitor.
Walmart is the biggest threat to Amazon in us as reports roll in of various attempts to
compete with the large online retailer. Reports of walmart testing a locker system for
consumers where shoppers can order and pay online and pickup at their convenience are
surfacing. Walmart is also still testing same-day delivery in four cities and remains the fourth
largest online retailer. Walmart rakes in about $9 billion in internet sales, which Amazon
more than doubles in a quarter. However, Amazon does not have the physical structure base
that walmart has to start with.
In developing countries as well as in developed, there are many local portals which give
tough competition to Amazon. For example – snapdeal, Flipkart are some of the competitors
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of Amazon. Similarly, groupon, first cry are specialized e-commerce portals which take away
traffic from Amazon. Thus, these local competitors of each country also react strongly to
Amazon’s presence. Market analysis in the marketing strategy of Amazon- the global
ecommerce market is still in the evolving phase. With the adaptation of technology in the
developing economies customers are now becoming more comfortable with online shopping.
Fierce competition from biggies like alibaba, ebay, start-ups & local ecommerce players like
Flipkart, snapdeal is more of resulting into overall growth of the industry which is good for
the industry.
Customer analysis in the marketing strategy of Amazon- Amazon customers consist of upper
& middle class social groups who have inclination towards using e-commerce portals and are
comfortable with online shopping. Majority of the customers are professionalsor businessmen
who are busy with their business/job & find it convenient to purchase anything online rather
than visiting the physical outlet in order to save time & money. Furthermore, the customers
might also be the ones who are searching for deals. Due to this, the portal is known to have
specific days where they give massive discounts to their buyers.
5.2.3 MARKETING MIX
Product in the marketing mix of Amazon
Amazon is an international ecommerce company, using connections to the internet from
various gadgets such as phones and tablets, to allow its customers to browse and purchase
products immediately. These products are then delivered to the customer, using delivery
service companies. Amazon has built up a huge product base, and sells almost everything,
including: kindle, books, dvds, mobile phones/tablets, gaming consoles and games, clothes
for men/women and children, jewellery, gardening equipment. Amazon initially started only
with books and it is till date known as the highest book seller in the world. This is why,
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Amazon also introduced kindle. Kindly is an ebook reader from Amazon and it is the reason
that the publishing market is having such a big revolution of converting hard paper to digital
ebooks because ease of reading by kindle. Due to success of kindle, Amazon also introduced
kindly fire – its own tablet pc. Type in a search entry into a search engine for a specific
product, and the chances are that Amazon will stock what you need, and will be on the search
list. As they continue to grow, more and more products are added to their inventory. Once
established into books, Amazon quickly expanded to other products to maintain its presence
in the market. Where ebay is know for techie products, Amazon is known for knowledgeable
products. Amazon continues to expand its product base, and in july 2014 it entered the smart
phone market, releasing its very own fire phone. The phone followed the release a month
earlier of Amazon’s very own set top box system – Amazon fire tv- which allows streaming
from various channels, as well as supporting speech commands when searching.
Place in the marketing mix of Amazon
In the recent past, sites such as Indiaplaza and allshcoolstuff were forced to close due to the
lack of trust when buying goods online. However, the brand image of Amazon enables it to
have a far and wide presence and the bottom line of the company is enough to enable massive
r&d efforts to secure the website. Amazon has customer service bases in many of the
countries where it has an online presence, with most bases being located in the different states
of the usa. Amazon employees are friendly and relaxed.
Promotion in the marketing mix of Amazon
While Amazon has broadcast television commercials, these are mostly in the american
market. Amazon uses mainly web based advertising, and they make some use of billboard
and smaller methods of advertising. Amazon also uses advertising networks online so that
whenever you check something on Amazon, you will see an ad for the same thing somewhere
else on some other website. Search engine marketing and getting the company’s name high
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up the search engine’s results is also a smart promotional strategy by Amazon. The founder
of Amazon had this in mind when creating the company, deciding that it should start with an
‘a’.
In India, Amazon can be seen to rely on the best source of promotion there is – word of
mouth. People telling others about the site, or mentioning it in a positive way is a sure way to
have a new future customer. However, there are several print media ads to make their
presence felt to the people. However, much more is needed in the promotions department
from Amazon in India because the traffic of Amazon is being taken over fast by Flipkart.
Price in the marketing mix of Amazon
Amazon is competitive with its prices, and has little ways of staying ahead of its market
contemporaries. For example, if you are looking to buy a book, Amazon offers you a new
copy, or a used copy as well, complete with pricing and condition. Another initiative is to pay
to have a premium account, ensuring faster deliveries. Amazon can also keep their prices
competitive due to their use of staff. Minimum numbers – but well trained – ensure that
consumers benefit from the lack of overheads, and the result is shown in the prices online.
As more and more people can access broadband connections in India and get online, the
competition for the likes of Amazon.com will toughen. Amazon’s quiet entry into India has
seen some growth so far due to its brand image, and it will be looking to keep its prices as
low as possible to capture a slice of the growing market place. It faces tough competition
from the likes of ebay, Flipkart and snapdeal.
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CHAPTER-6
ADVERTISING
AND
PROMOTION
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6.1 2015 ADVERTISING STATISTICS FOR E-COMMERCE FIRMS
2015 was the year when e-
commerce companies opened up their war chest, built over years, and spent heavily on
advertising on garnering market share and brand building. The advertising amount was spent
across channels – tv, print and digital media – with tv ad spends getting the lion’s share. It
was an interesting year. Advertising budget for a startup had a direct correlation with the
amount of funds raised by it. For eg. Limeroad, grofers and craftsvilla collectively raised
close to rs. 60 crores in 2015 of which rs. 28.5 crores were spent in advertising.
Let’s have a look at the highlights of the advertising spend done by various e-commerce
companies in 2015.
1. With an estimated advertising budget of rs. 350 crores, askme group was the biggest
advertiser among its peer. The group is backed by helion investments and astro
malaysia.
2. During the festive period (sep – nov), e-commerce firms in India spent rs. 500 crore in
advertising. The entire advertising spent of e-commerce players, during 2014, was rs.
600 crores.
3. Jeff bezos owned Amazon spent 224 crore on advertising during the 3 months of
festive season whereas Flipkart spent almost 70 crores during the same period.
4. Flipkart owned fashion brand, myntra, spent around 30 crores on advertising while
usedgoods marketplace, olx, spent over 55 crores during the peak season of sep-nov
2015.
5. According to tam media research pvt. Ltd., e-commerce firms have spent a total of rs.
1,200 crores in the first 9 months of 2015 (till sep 30, 2015).
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6. This was an increase of over 46 percent over the corresponding period in 2014. Close
to 70 percent of the advertising budget was spent on prime-time spots whereas over
40 percent of the spend was done on non-fiction channels. Why non-fiction?
Companies targeting youth believed that these channels would give them better
conversion and reach as compared to traditional entertainment channels.
Figure 6.1 Expenditure on Advertising
6.2 E-COMMERCE ADVERTISING LANDSCAPE TILL 2015
Spending big –
Flipkart’s annual advertising budget is about rs. 75 cr, while Amazon’s expected investment
in advertising for 2014 is rs. 100-150 cr. In 2013, e-commerce companies spent rs 1,355 cr on
advertising overall. In 2015, nearly rs. 221 cr have already been spent on advertising by the
major players of the e-tailers in the first six months. This does not include players in the
travel industry such as makemytrip, yatra and cleartrip. Travel contributes 70% to the
ecommerce market in India. During recent festive season, snapdeal is a clear winner with use
of massive budget on advertising and literally flooding all tv shows and movie channels with
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snapdeal advertisement. The exact figures are not available but rough estimates amount up to
rs 100 cr being spent on festive season advertising budget.
Print vs. Radio vs. Television vs. Online – in 2014, until now, print has been the most widely
used medium of advertising, with e-commerce companies spending rs. 599 cr on it. In a
country where 47.2% households have television sets, as compared to 11% of online users,
television is the next medium of choice, where online players have spent rs. 170 cr, finally
followed by radio at rs. 13.9 cr.
Figure 6.2 Advertising Channel Distribution
Capturing the market eye-balls in travel
Travel e-commerce is valued at $8 bn in India, accounting for 70% of the overall market, and
growing at a 32% cagr. Travel websites in India have so far preferred to wage fare wars,
competing on the value of sales offered in tickets and hotel bookings rather than direct
advertising. Those that have tie-ups with hotels and offer complete travel solutions also
compete on the types of package tours and their competitive pricing. Flash sales and fare
wars have increased the overall travel spends by 20-25% in 2014.
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How do e-commerce players manage to spend big amounts on advertising?
Almost all the e-commerce players are backed by global and local investors who are pouring
million of dollars in these companies. A large part of this investment is being used by
ecommerce players to enhance their brand identity and corner a loin share of online shoppers.
Ofcourse, the smaller companies who lack substantial investment are at a loss here. However,
some of the smaller, niche e-commerce players are making targeted marketing efforts to
channelize their advertising fund to maximize roi.
Outlook for spend on advertising in 2016
According to a report by zenithoptimedia, the ad spend in major asian economies will
continue to grow in 2016, albeit at a lower rate of 8.4 percent when compared with 8.9
percent growth of 2015. The slowdown will primarily due to sluggish ad spending in china
which currently accounts for 74% of the total asian advertising spend. Besides, India and
china, the major asian economies include Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan
and Vietnam.
6.3 FLIPKART ADVERTISING AGENCY
Happy creative services, which has
been the brand's creative agency since 2010. Myntra, the fashion e-commerce major which
Flipkart had acquired in may 2014, will be handled by lowe lintas, which had already been
the brand's creative agency since march 2014. Flipkart and myntra continue to operate as
separate entities and myntra founder mukesh bansal is the head the fashion business for
Flipkart and join the Flipkart board. Flipkart's first tv commercial for the e-retailer, 'fairytale',
was an elaborate 100-second effort. Created in the old english style of fairytales, it was the
story of an old woman, a voracious reader, who lives in a cottage and orders her daily read by
clicking on a live mouse. The rest of the ads including 'no kidding', 'shopping ka naya
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address' and the most recent one, 'Flipkart it', have been etched in tv viewers' minds owing to
the unique approach of using child actors to communicate the ease of shopping on Flipkart. In
2013, the e-commerce portal announced its entry into the realm of fashion and lifestyle with a
new tvc campaign titled 'fashion has a new address' - an extension of its previous punchline,
'shopping has a new address'.
6.4 AMAZON ADVERTISING AGENCY
Orchard advertising India is Amazon
India’s advertising agency. Orchard advertising India highlights the benfits of shopping on
Amazon.com with # weIndians. Conceptualized and executed by orchard India and directed
by anurag kashyap, the one minute video shows Amazon as a reliable place to shop from with
original products, easy return policies and on-time delivery. The video comes along with a
song with lyrics by amitabh bhattacharya and music by amit trivedi. #aurdhikhao to
#trytohkar, #apni dukaan and now #weIndians are the famous taglines used for Amazon India
advertising.
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CHAPTER-7
SWOT ANALYSIS
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7.1 FLIPKART
Strengths:
1. India’s largest e-commerce retailer: Flipkart is the India’s largest e-commerce
company & had sold gmv (gross merchandising value) of $1 billion till now.
2. Experienced founders: the founders of Flipkart, sachin & binny bansal are ex-
Amazon employees. Having prior experience in the e-commerce industry helped the
founders to work strategically and differentiate their business in a highly competitive
market.
3. Acquisition: with its series of acquisitions like letsbuy.co,, chakpak.com,
weread.com, mine360 & the recent one myntra in 2014 has helped the company to
expand in the ecommerce space & used the capabilities and existing resources of
acquired companies.
4. High brand recall: Flipkart has established itself as a renowned e-commerce
company in India through tv ads, online branding and through its presence on social
media. Brand activities like the “big billion day” have really increased the brand recall
of the company.
5. Own payment gateway & logistic arm: having its own logistics arm e-kart &
payment gateway payzippy has helped the company to control its expenses. Thereby
passing the benefits to the end customers.
6. Exclusive & broad range of products: from having exclusive rights to launch some
products like motog motox, xiaomi mi3 as well as personal designers segments in
garments category, has helped the company to differentiate and localize its offerings.
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Weaknesses:
1. Limited distribution channel reach: although its logistics arm has kept cost’s low,
the reach has been affected which is a weakness for Flipkart. Due to use of
outsourcing, global giants like Amazon & ebay can deliver the product anywhere in
the country. However, Flipkart is still struggling in this field.
2. Cost of acquisition: due to stiff competition in the market & low customer retention,
the cost of acquisition is high because Flipkart acquires a lot of customers through
online advertising. As per Flipkart data, the company spends r.s 400/- on acquiring a
new customer on an average.
3. Power in the hand of buyers: since this industry is flooded with many players,
buyers have a lot of options to choose. Switching costs are also less for customers
since they can easily switch a service from one online retail company to another.
Same products will be displayed in several online retail websites. Product
differentiation is almost absent and the fight then begins on the basis of price only.
Opportunities:
1. Expansion of business: by targeting other emerging markets company can increase
their revenues as well as it can have economies of scale.
2. Expanding their product categories: this will increase their customer base & at the
same time will reduce the cost of acquisition and customer switch.
3. Changing mentality of Indian customers: with increasing numbers of customers
getting comfortable with online shopping & increase in numbers of internet users in
India, there is huge potential in this industry.
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4. Supply chain: by optimizing their supply chain they can compete with the other
players & can manage the loosing sales on account of not making the product
available due to delivery constraints.
5. Establishing in other developing economies: like Amazon, Flipkart can slowly start
expanding out of India and establish operations in other countries as well which will
help improve revenues.
Threats:
1. Competition: stiff competition from the global players like Amazon, ebay as well as
local player like snapdeal, tolexo and shopclues who are continuously trying to eat
each other’s market share.
2. Government regulations on the issues related to fdi in multi branding retail has been
a big hurdle in the success of the e-commerce industry in India.
7.2 AMAZON
Strengths:
1. Strong background and deep pockets – built on its early successes with books,
Amazon now has product categories that include electronics, toys, games, home and
kitchen, white goods, brown goods and much more. Amazon has evolved as a global
ecommerce giant in the last 2 decades.
2. Customer centric: company’s robust crm has created customer centric processes in
order to carefully record data on customer’s buying behavior. This enables them to
offer individual items, related items or bundle them as an offer, based upon
preferences demonstrated through purchases or items visited. Also, the company
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claims that 55% of their customers are repeat buyers resulting in low cost of
acquisition of new buyers.
3. Cost leadership: in order to differentiate itself, company has created several strategic
alliances with other companies to offer superior customer service. The most important
strategic tie ups are with logistics provides who control costs. Because of playing on
economies of scale, Amazon is able to lower the inventory replenishment time.
4. Efficient delivery network: with its strategic partners & due to its Amazon fulfilment
centers, Amazon has created a deep & structured network in order to make the
product available even at remote locations. It also has free of cost delivery charges in
certain geographies.
5. Global strategy: by using the strategy of “go global & act local”, Amazon is able to
fight with domestic e-commerce companies through absorbing & by forming /
partnering with supply chain companies. The branding too is done as per local taste.
For example- in
India, Amazon is currently using the “aur dikhao” campaign to encourage users to browse
more of their products.
6. Acquisitions: acquiring companies like zappos.com, junglee.com, imbd.com,
woot.com etc. Has proven to be a successful and revenue generating step for the e
commerce giant.
Weakness:
1. Shrinking margins: due to extensive delivery network & price wars Amazons
margins are shrinking, which is resulting in even losses. In India, Amazon had a loss
of $359 crs in the year 2013-14.
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2. Tax avoidance issue: Amazon has attracted negative publicity on account of tax
avoidance in countries like u.s & uk. Most of its revenue is generated from these well
established markets.
3. High debt: in many developing nations Amazon is still struggling to make the
business profitable thereby affecting the overall profitability of the group resulting
into high debt.
4. Product flops – Amazon launched the fire phone in the us which was a big flop. At
the same time, kindle fire did not pick up as strongly as kindle did. Thus, there were
several product flops which caused a dent in Amazon’s deep pockets.
Opportunities:
1. Backward integration: Amazon can come up with its in-house brands in different
product categories. They can also differentiate their offering. This will help them
make profits in highly competitive e-commerce market.
2. Global expansion: expansion mainly in asian & developing economies will help
Amazon because those are the markets with low competition in e-commerce
industries & are not saturated like developed economies.
3. Acquisitions: by acquiring e-commerce companies it can decrease the competition
level & also can use the specialized capacity of the other company.
4. Opening physical stores outside u.s: by doing this Amazon can help the customers
to engage with the brand, resulting in increase in repeat purchases & increase in loyal
customer base.
Threats:
1. Low entry barriers of the industry: low entry barriers affect the current player’s
business as more & more company means tough competition, price wars, shrinking
margins & losses resulting into questioning the sustainability of the players.
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2. Government regulations: not having clarity on the issues related to FDI in multi
brand retail, has been a big hurdle in the success of the e-commerce players in many
developing nations.
3. Local competition – India has snapdeal and Flipkart who are local e commerce
retailers and are taking away majority of the market. Similarly, there are many local
players who take bites from the market share thereby making it hard for a big player
like Amazon to make profits.
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CHAPTER-8
DATA ANALYSIS
AND
INTERPRETATION
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The below mentioned data is collected and analysed in terms of customer satisfaction and
intergrity of the products of AMAZON and FLIPKART:-
1. AGE GROUP
The table given below indicates the age group of the respondents
AGE NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS PERCENT

<25 35 50%
25-35 25 35.7%
35> 10 14.3%
TOTAL 70 100%
NO. OF RESPONDENTS
14%
<25
25-35
50% 35>
36%
INTERPRETATIONS
1. 50% of the respondents fall in age group of below 25.
2. 35.7% of the respondents fall between the age of 25-35.
3. 14.3% of the respondents fall in the age group of above 35.
2. GENDER PROFILE
The table below shows the gender profile of the respondents
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GENDER NO. OF RESPONDENTS PERCENT
MALE 28 40%
FEMALE 42 60%
TOTAL 70 100%
NO. OF RESPONDENTS
40%
MALE
FEMAL
E
60%
INTERPRETATIONS
1. 60% of respondents are women.
2. 40% of the respondents are men.
3. HAVE YOU EVER DONE ONLINE SHOPPING?
OPTIONS NO. OF RESPONDENTS PERCENT
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YES 42 60%
NO 28 40%
TOTAL 70 100%
NO. OF RESPONDENTS
40% YE
S
60% NO
INTERPRETATIONS
60% of the respondents shop online while remaining 40% shop offline or
directly through market.
4. HOW OFTEN DO YOU SHOP ONLINE?
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ONCE IN AMONTH 21 30%
ONCE IN TWO MONTHS 28 40%
MORE FREQUENTLY 14 20%
MORE OFTEN 7 10%
TOTAL 70 100%
NO. OF RESPONDENTS
10% 30%
20%
ONCE IN A MONTH
ONCE IN A TWO MONTH
MORE FREQUENTLY
MORE OFTEN
40%
INTERPRETATIONS
From above table we can interpret that how often respondents are doing shopping online. It
became habit of choosing online shopping instead of brick and mortar shopping. Here 30% of
respondents are so regular that they do shop online at least once in month. That opens more
ways to e-commerce people to succeed in market.
5. WHICH ONLINE SITE WILL YOU PREFER?
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FLIPKART 29 41.4%
AMAZON 29 41.4%
SNAPDEAL 6 8.6%
PAYTM 3 4.3%
OTHER 3 4.3%
TOTAL 70 100%
4.3
4.3 NO. OF RESPONDENTS
8.6
41.4
FLIPKART
AMAZON
SNAPDEAL
PAYTM
41.4 OTHER
INTERPRETATIONS:
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From above table we can interpret that both Amazon and Flipkart were chosen by 82.9%
people equally. And rest of the e-commerce players such as snapdeal (8.6%) and paytm
(4.3%) are too low in the competition to reach the target of both Amazon and Flipkart. Even
though paytm is offering huge discounts when compared to its competitors.
6. HOW DO YOU MAKE PAYMENTS WHEN SHOPPING ONLINE?
OPTIONS NO. OF RESPONDENTS PERCENT(%)
DEBIT CARD 19 27.1
CASH ON DELIVERY 7 10.0
CREDIT CARD 44 62.9
TOTAL 70 100.0
NO OF RESPONDENT
27%
DEBIT CARD
COD
CREDIT CARD
63% 10%
INTERPRETATION:
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E-commerce players have to gain confidence in terms of providing security to customer’s
sensitive data. When respondent is questioned with payment method they will use while
doing online shopping, most of the respondents choose cash on delivery method which is of
62.9%. We can analyze that cash on delivery is simple and perfect way to customer to
proceed. Even delivery boys are carrying swipe machines and made more convenient.
7. WHICH ONLINE SERVICE IS MORE SATISFIED IN TERMS OF
PRODUCTS, CUSTOMER CARE AND DELIVERY SERVICES?
OPTIONS NO. OF RESPNDENTS PERCENT(%)

FLIPKART 28 40.0
AMAZON 33 47.1
OTHERS 9 12.9
TOTAL 70 100.0
NO. OF RESPONDENT
13%
FLIPKART
40%
AMAZON
OTHERS
47%
INTERPRETATION:
E-commerce site that is most appreciated by customers is Amazon. Amazon is leading with
47.1% when compared to Flipkart, which is having 40% of respondent’s interest. And rest of
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e-commerce sites are not even in the reach of Flipkart and Amazon. It clearly proves that
Flipkart and Amazon are leading e-commerce market in India.
8. HOW DO YOU CHOOSE ONLINE SHOPPING SITE?
OPTIONS NO. OF RESPONDENT PERCENT(%)

REFERRED BY FRIENDS 28 40.0
ADVERTISEMENT 14 20.0
ONLINE REVIEWS 28 40.0
TOTAL 70 100.0
no. of respondent
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
referred by friends advertisement online reviews
no. of respondent
INTERPRETATION:
Which is the perfect way to reach the customers? Or by what basis client is choosing online
site for shopping. According to above table respondents are choosing as per online reviews
and also equal percentage of respondents are choosing e-commerce sites based upon their
friend’s suggestions.
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9. HAVE YOU ENCOUNTERED ANY PROBLEMS WITH ONLINE
SHOPPING SITE? IF YES, BY WHICH ONE
OPTION NO. OF RESPONDENTS PERCENT(%)
AMAZON 28 40
FLIPKART 21 30
OTHERS 21 30
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
AMAZON FLIPKART OTHERS
NO. OF RESPONDENT
INTERPRETATION:
From above table we can interpret that Amazon was chosen by 40% people. And rest of the
e-commerce players such as flipkart(30%) and others(30%) are choosen equally by the
people.
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10. IN TERMS OF PRICING, WITH WHICH ONLINE SHOPPING SITE
YOU ARE SATISFIED?
OPTIONS NO. OF RESPONDENTS PERCENT (%)
FLIPKART 24 34.3
AMAZON 25 35.7
SNAPDEAL 7 10
PAYTM 12 17.1
OTHERS 2 2.9
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENTS
3%
17%
34% FLIPKART
AMAZON
SNAPDEAL
10%
PAYTM
OTHERS
36%
INTERPRETATIONS
Price, the most important aspect while purchasing. When an e-commerce site can offer what
we needed with reasonable price, then everyone will go after that site only. From above table
people are mostly impressed with Amazon and Flipkart with slight change. Even though
Paytm is offering all the products at very low rates, people are interested in top ones.
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11.WHICH ONLINE SHOPPING SITE WILL YOU SUGGEST TO YOUR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS?

FLIPKART 20 28.6
AMAZON 26 37.1
SNAPDEAL 10 14.3
PAYTM 9 12.9
OTHERS 5 7.1
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
13% 7% 29%
FLIPKART
AMAZON
SNAPDEAL
14% PAYTM
OTHERS
37%
INTERPRETATION: From one of our previous question we understood it that friend
suggestion is so important while purchasing online or while selecting an e-commerce site.
From above table we got our view clear based upon the respondent’s view which e-commerce
site is leading in friends’ suggestions. 37.1% of respondents are ready to suggest Amazon to
their friends and family. And after Amazon, Flipkart is leading in respondent’s suggestion
box with 28.6%. And rests of them are having very minimum importance and occupation in
respondent’s opinion.
12.ON WHICH OCCASIONS DO YOU MAKE PURCHASE?
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FESTIVALS 7 10
GIFTS 6 8.6
OFFERS 38 54.3
WEDDING 5 7.1
OTHERS 14 20
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
FESTIVALS GIFTS OFFERS WEDDING OTHERS
NO. OF RESPONDENT
INTERPRETATION: E-commerce sites know when to and how to capture customers.
The timing of offers in e-commerce sites is just perfect. Even though people don’t need them
they will purchase because of tempting deals in a row. More than 50% of people are doing
online shopping, when those e-commerce sites are offering so many exciting deals and offers.
All the ecommerce sites are moving their pawns competitive to each other, which lead
customers in confusion.
13. DOES PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES IMPACT YOUR PURCASING
DECISIONS?
STRONGLY AGREE 21 30
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AGREE 25 35.7
NEITHER AGREE NOR DISAGREE 14 20
DISAGREE 6 8.6
STRONGLY DISAGREE 4 5.7
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
STRONGLY AGREE AGREE NEITHR AGREE NOR DISAGREE STRONGLY
DISAGREE DISAGREE
NO. OF RESPONDENT
INTERPRETATION: Amazon proved once again, that it will be always one step ahead
from the rest of the players in the market. Most of Amazon customers (30%) are very happy
and strongly agree with customer support of Amazon, which made Amazon unbeatable
winner ahead. From previous tables we understood customers are scared of damage of the
product and quality of products are major issues to be considered. These barriers were not
there in Amazon because of its brand collaborations and its amazing packing grabbed
customer’s attention and made people loyal to it.
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14. HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU THAT YOUR PERSONAL INFO. IS
KEPT CONFIDENTIAL WHEN BUYING PRODUCTS ONLINE?
NO. OF RESPONDENT PERCENT (%)
EXTREMELY CONFIDENT 28 40
QUITE CONFIDENT 21 30
MODERATELY CONFIDENT 7 10
SLIGHTLY CONFIDENT 14 20
NOT AT ALL CONFIDENT 0 0
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
EXTREMELY QUITE MODERATELY SLIGHTLY NOT AT ALL
CONFIDENT CONFIDENT CONFIDENT CONFIDENT CONFIDENT
NO. OF RESPONDENT
INTERPRETATION:
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15. WHAT KIND OF PROBLEM DID YOU FACED WHILE DOING
ONLINE SHOPPING?
DELAY IN DELIVERY 15 21.4
CHEAP QUALITY OF PRODUCTS 10 14.3
PRODUCT DAMAGE 29 41.4
NON-DELIVERY 7 10
OTHERS 9 12.9
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
13%
21%
DELAY IN DELIVERY
10% CHEAP QUALITY OF PRODUCTS
PRODUCT DAMAGE
NON DELIVERY
OTHERS
14%
41%
INTERPRETATION: From product order to delivery of the product its company’s
responsibility to fulfill customer’s requirements. Customers expect what they paid for, if
something happens, they will hesitate to purchase again. From above table most of the
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respondents (41.4%) are having problem with the product quality and after that they are
having problem with delay of product delivery.
16. CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE AFTER PURCHASE FROM FLIPKART
IS GOOD
STRONGLY AGREE 12 17.1
AGREE 33 47.1
NEITHER AGREE NO DISAGREE 10 14.3
DISAGREE 9 12.9
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
13% 9% 17%
STRONGLY AGREE
AGREE
NEITHER AGREE NOR DISAGREE
DISAGREE
14% STRONGLY DISAGREE
47%
INTERPRETATION: Respondents will choose e-commerce sites when they are fully
satisfied with their complete services. After purchase also, company have to take responsible
for customer’s requirement. Flipkart made its mark in customer’s heart. Respondents (47.1%)
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of them are happy with the Flipkart customer support. This is actually a better result to
Flipkart, because people are positive towards it.
17. CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE AFTER PURCHASE FROM AMAZON
IS GOOD
STRONGLY AGREE 21 30
AGREE 25 35.7
NEITHER AGREE NO DISAGREE 14 20
DISAGREE 6 8.6
TOTAL 70 100
NO. OF RESPONDENT
6%
9%
30% STRONGLY AGREE
AGREE
NEITHER AGREE NOR DISAGREE
20% DISAGREE
STRONGLY DISAGREE
36%
INTERPRETATION: Respondents will choose e-commerce sites when they are fully
satisfied with their complete services. After purchase also, company have to take responsible
for customer’s requirement. Amazon made its mark in customer’s heart. Respondents
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(35.7%) of them are happy with the Amazon customer support. This is actually a better result
to Amazon, because people are positive towards it.
CHAPTER-9
FINDINGS,
CONCLUSIONS
AND
SUGGESTIONS
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9.1 FINDINGS
 Female respondents are showing more interest to do online shopping than male
respondents.
 Customers are preferring quality product from e-commerce sites, even it is bit
expensive.
 Flipkart is trying very hard to reach the top position but Amazon India is giving very
tough competition.
 Amazon is leading in every aspect of survey such as price, preferred and also
suggesting to friends.
 Paytm have to take care of its products and customer service because of its cheap
product quality and less variety of products making it loose customers.
 Undoubtedly Flipkart and Amazon made their impact on customers very strongly and
captured loyal customers. And they are ready suggest their online shopping site to rest
of their friends.
 Both Flipkart and Amazon India advertisings were very innovative and attractive.
Both companies are expending so much money on advertising and promotions.
 Every age group people are interested in offers, if they are in need or not they want to
purchase.
9.2 CONCLUSION
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The study consisted with all the work flows of major e-
commerce players in India, Flipkart and Amazon. How they are performing and how they are
running perfectly in the competitive world has been explained. The innovative thinking of
them to reach more and more consumers is appreciable. They increased their network as
much as possible with ultimate aim of reaching more and more customers. They made
consumers work more easy and comfortable. In this competitive market one has to be lead
and rest will follow. Based upon consumer’s survey we got our clear winner and it is
Amazon. Even though it is an international company it understood Indians very well and
made its roots stronger in India. Flipkart is also giving very tough competition to Amazon
even though it is new company when compared to Amazon. Maybe it takes some time to
overcome, but definitely they are doing very well in Indian e-commerce market.
9.3 SUGGESTIONS
Flipkart is performing ok but not good enough. There are so
many cases where people felt that packing might have been better than this. Either it may be
big or small / expensive or not product has to be treated with care. Some of the products
mostly apparels are turning out with original cover of supplier, which shows negligence of
them. In this issue Amazon made a mark among us, because whatever the product is their
packing will obviously safe and secure.
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REFRENCES
1. TEXT BOOKS :- Marketing management by PHILLIP KOTLER, LANE

KELLER, ABRAHAM KOSHY and MITHILESHWAR JHA.
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Nigam
 “Prospects of e-commerce in India” by Sharma and Mittal (2009)
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Gangeshwar. (2013)
 “Finding the source of Amazon.com: examining the hype of the earth’s biggest book
store”, by Martin Dodge. (1999)
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ANNEXURE
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QUESTIONNAIRE
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN FLIPKART AND
AMAZON INDIA
1. Age?
a.< 25
b. 25- 35
c. >35
2. Gender?
a. Male
b. Female
3. Have you ever done online shopping?

a. Yes
b. No
4. How often do you shop online?
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a. Once in month
b. Once in two month
c. More frequently
d. More often
5. Which online site will you prefer?

a. Flipkart
b. Amazon
c. Snapdeal
d. Paytm
e. Others
6. How do you make payments when shopping online?

a. Debit card
b. Cash on delivery
c. Credit card
d. Third party (Paytm wallet, PayPal etc.)
7. Which online service is more satisfied in terms of products,

a. Flipkart
b. Amazon
c. others
8. How do you choose online shopping site?

a. Referred by friends
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b. Advertisements
c. Online reviews
9. Have you encountered any problems with online shopping site?

if yes, by which one
a. Flipkart
b. Amazon
c. Others
10. In terms of pricing, with which online shopping site you are
satisfied?
a. Flipkart
b. Amazon
c. Snapdeal
d. Paytm
e. Others
11. Which online shopping site will you suggest to your family and
friends?
a. Flipkart
b. Amazon
c. Snapdeal
d. Paytm
e. Others
12. On which occasions do you make purchase?
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a. festivals
b. gifts
c. offers
d. weddings
e. others
13. Does promotional activities impact your purchasing decision?

a. Strongly agree
b. Agree
c. Neither Agree nor Dis Agree
d. Disagree
e. Strongly Disagree
14. How confident are you that your personal information is kept
a. Extremely confident
b. Quite confident
c. Moderately confident
d. Slightly confident
e. Not at all confident
15. What kind of problem did you faced while doing online
shopping?
a. Delay in delivery
b. Cheap quality of a product
c. Product damage
d. Non delivery
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16. Customer assistance after purchase from Flipkart is good?

a. Strongly agree
b. Agree
d. Disagree
17. Customer assistance after purchase from Amazon is good?

a. Strongly agree
b. Agree
d. Disagree
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I take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to H.P.U for offering a

Marketing. First of all, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Coordinator of

M.COM DR. MADAN GULERIA and my project guide PROF. SAPNA

THAKUR, Professor of Department of Commerce for helping in me out

various aspects of my project.

SAPNA THAKUR SONALI THAKUR

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This is to certify that SONALI THAKUR, student of M.com 4th semester of

GOVT. PG. COLLEGE DHARAMSHALA affiliated to HIMACHAL

PRADESH UNIVERSITY has completed her project under my supervision.

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“COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN FLIPKART AND AMAZON

20/05/2020 to 28/06/2020 and has not submitted to any other university or

institution for the award of any degree/diploma etc.

Signature of the Student

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way people work. By integrating various online information management tools

customer orders, facilitate making of payments, customer service, collection of

marketing data, and online feedback respectively. These activities have

collectively known as e-commerce or Internet commerce. Online shopping

Comparison have been done considering e-commerce challenges, their business

model, funding, revenue generation, growth, survival strategies, Shoppers’

online shopping experience, value added differentiation, and product offerings.

ultimate winner or be the top one is going to be. A comparative study of

Flipkart.com with one of the close competitor Amazon.com delivers the

information about the different strategies to succeed in e-commerce market and

different opportunities available in India.

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2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND

6. ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION

8. DATA ANALYSIS AND

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1.2 PROBLEM DEFINITION

1.3 RESEARCH APPROACH

1.4 DATA COLLECTION

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2.2 E-COMMERCE IN INDIA

3.2 AMAZON INDIA

4.3 AMAZON INDIA

6.4 AMAZON ADVERTISING AGENCY

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3 Have you ever done online shopping?

4 How often do you shop online?

5 Which online site will you prefer?

6 How do you make payments when shopping online?

7 Which online service is more satisfied in terms of products,

8 How do you choose online shopping site?