No more beatdowns as delivery workers emerge as frontline soldiers in India

E-commerce is limping back to life in India after easing of lockdown. FMTNews IndiaCovid19

Indian police officers stop motorists as part of enforcing a countrywide lockdown in Mumbai on March 30.

“But what I was expecting didn’t happen. The police were very friendly – they just asked me where I was going and why.” Moreover, political coldness towards e-commerce, which many in India see as a threat to millions of brick-and-mortar retailers, has faded. Amazon and its Walmart-controlled rival Flipkart have until now not had a warm welcome in India: New Delhi tweaked foreign investment rules, forcing the two companies to alter their structures, and anti-trust probes have been launched against them over allegations of deep discounts that hurt small businesses.

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