{"id":862469,"date":"2024-10-03T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=862469"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:50:55","slug":"flipkarts-re-1-auto-rides-take-bengaluru-by-storm-netizens-say-more-impossible-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/03\/flipkarts-re-1-auto-rides-take-bengaluru-by-storm-netizens-say-more-impossible-than\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipkart\u2019s Re 1 auto rides take Bengaluru by storm; netizens say \u2018more impossible than\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of its Big Billion Days sale, Walmart-owned e-commerce marketplace Flipkart launched a campaign in Bengaluru, offering auto-rickshaw rides at just Re 1 during peak traffic hours. This quickly gained attention on social media, with netizens claiming that it was &#8220;more impossible&#8221; than me getting a reply from a crush. <\/p>\n<p>The Flipkart UPI campaign, according to the company, aimed to ease Bangaloreans&#8217; daily commutes, which are exacerbated by chaotic traffic during peak office hours, along with the inconvenience of auto rickshaw drivers preferring cash over digital payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of its Big Billion Days sale, Walmart-owned e-commerce marketplace Flipkart launched a campaign in Bengaluru, offering auto-rickshaw rides at just Re 1 during peak traffic hours. This quickly gained attention on social media, with netizens claiming that it was &#8220;more impossible&#8221; than me getting a reply from a crush. The Flipkart UPI campaign, according to the company, aimed to ease Bangaloreans&#8217; daily commutes, which are exacerbated by chaotic traffic during peak office hours, along with the inconvenience of auto rickshaw drivers preferring cash over digital payments.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862469","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=862469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}