{"id":862249,"date":"2024-10-03T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=862249"},"modified":"2024-10-03T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:07:34","slug":"slow-start-for-smartphone-sales-this-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/03\/slow-start-for-smartphone-sales-this-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow start for smartphone sales this festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early trends indicate that smartphone sales are off to a slow start this festival season on e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Flipkart, with many consumers holding back on purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts attribute the lukewarm response to a lack of attractive offers on e-commerce platforms compared to last year, a general market slowdown with higher inventories, and the likelihood of delayed purchases by consumers who are anticipating better offers as sales progress throughout the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early trends indicate that smartphone sales are off to a slow start this festival season on e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Flipkart, with many consumers holding back on purchases. Analysts attribute the lukewarm response to a lack of attractive offers on e-commerce platforms compared to last year, a general market slowdown with higher inventories, and the likelihood of delayed purchases by consumers who are anticipating better offers as sales progress throughout the month.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862249","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=862249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}