2 days ago · The Inevitable Shape of Cheap Online Retail Why value commerce platforms in China, Southeast Asia and India ended up as ad-and-credit businesses disguised as marketplaces.

These platforms run asset-light marketplaces specializing in cheap goods and slow delivery, monetizing through logistics mark-ups, advertising, and installment credit rather than retail margins.

2 days ago · The Inevitable Shape of Cheap Online Retail (indiadispatch.com) 13 Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:01PM from the closer-look dept.

Pinduoduo in China, Shopee in Southeast Asia, and Meesho in India operate in markets that could hardly be more different -- an upper-middle-income industrial state, a stitched-together archipelago of …

2 days ago · Hindustan Times 2025-12-11 CEO of South Korean online retail giant Coupang resigns after hacking that leaked data of nearly 34 million customers The Times of India 2025-12-10 Indian …

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Oct 29, 2024 · The retail landscape of 2025 is being shaped by a perfect storm of technological innovation, changing consumer values, and evolving business models.