{"id":846696,"date":"2024-08-22T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=846696"},"modified":"2024-08-22T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T04:15:40","slug":"online-vs-offline-retail-industry-divided-over-piyush-goyals-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/22\/online-vs-offline-retail-industry-divided-over-piyush-goyals-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Online vs offline retail: Industry divided over Piyush Goyal&#8217;s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal\u2019s recent comments on large e-commerce players have reignited the debate about their impact on smaller offline retailers. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Goyal said that the rapid growth of e-commerce in India is a \u201ccause for concern\u201d and is diminishing the market share of small, mom-and-pop stores by offering high-margin products such as consumer electronics and apparel at discounted rates. <\/p>\n<p>His remarks have polarised opinions among retailers. Small retailers have largely supported Goyal\u2019s statements, while industry bodies argue that e-commerce has actually benefited smaller retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal\u2019s recent comments on large e-commerce players have reignited the debate about their impact on smaller offline retailers. On Wednesday, Goyal said that the rapid growth of e-commerce in India is a \u201ccause for concern\u201d and is diminishing the market share of small, mom-and-pop stores by offering high-margin products such as consumer electronics and apparel at discounted rates. His remarks have polarised opinions among retailers. Small retailers have largely supported Goyal\u2019s statements, while industry bodies argue that e-commerce has actually benefited smaller retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}