{"id":10979,"date":"2023-07-30T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/30\/innovation-and-exploitation-indias-e-commerce-boom-threatens-to-upend-local-businesses-and-workers-rights\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T13:38:20","slug":"innovation-and-exploitation-indias-e-commerce-boom-threatens-to-upend-local-businesses-and-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/30\/innovation-and-exploitation-indias-e-commerce-boom-threatens-to-upend-local-businesses-and-workers-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and exploitation: India\u2019s e-commerce boom threatens to upend local businesses and workers\u2019 rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While online shopping explodes in the world\u2019s biggest country, traditional companies are struggling to adapt<\/p>\n<p>The apps are there for whatever you need: an extra mango, a carton of milk, a pint of ice-cream or a replacement phone cable for the one your dog chewed in half. For those living in the urban centres of India \u2013 and increasingly in the smaller cities and towns beyond \u2013 almost anything can be delivered at the touch of a button \u2013 sometimes within less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Online shopping, otherwise known as e-commerce, is rapidly changing the way India shops and nowhere is that clearer than through quick commerce: the apps that can deliver groceries and other essentials to your door in the time it takes to hard boil an egg and at a cost of 30p \u2013 or less \u2013 for the service.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/30\/innovation-and-exploitation-indias-e-commerce-boom-threatens-to-upend-local-businesses-and-workers-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/77fa835ce0663e06194050298c6301d118241df4\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ce2eaf8868eb4ef32e5e454cae1b5515\" title=\"Innovation and exploitation: India\u2019s e-commerce boom threatens to upend local businesses and workers\u2019 rights\" \/>While online shopping explodes in the world\u2019s biggest country, traditional companies are struggling to adapt<br \/>\nThe apps are there for whatever you need: an extra mango, a carton of milk, a pint of ice-cream or a replacement phone cable for the one your dog chewed in half. For those living in the urban centres of India \u2013 and increasingly in the smaller cities and towns beyond \u2013 almost anything can be delivered at the touch of a button \u2013 sometimes within less than 10 minutes.<br \/>\nOnline shopping, otherwise known as e-commerce, is rapidly changing the way India shops and nowhere is that clearer than through quick commerce: the apps that can deliver groceries and other essentials to your door in the time it takes to hard boil an egg and at a cost of 30p \u2013 or less \u2013 for the service. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While online shopping explodes in the world\u2019s biggest country, traditional companies are struggling to adapt The apps are there for whatever you need: an extra mango, a carton of milk, a pint of ice-cream or a replacement phone cable for the one your dog chewed in half. For those living in the urban centres of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/30\/innovation-and-exploitation-indias-e-commerce-boom-threatens-to-upend-local-businesses-and-workers-rights\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Innovation and exploitation: India\u2019s e-commerce boom threatens to upend local businesses and workers\u2019 rights<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}