{"id":912189,"date":"2025-03-07T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=912189"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:21:52","slug":"quick-e-commerce-companies-zomato-swiggy-and-zepto-face-antitrust-case-over-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/07\/quick-e-commerce-companies-zomato-swiggy-and-zepto-face-antitrust-case-over-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick e-commerce companies Zomato, Swiggy and Zepto face antitrust case over discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian consumer products distributors have filed an antitrust case against big fast-delivery businesses of Zomato, Swiggy and Zepto, calling for an investigation into alleged deep discounting practices, legal papers show. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s e-commerce sector has faced intense scrutiny over how products are priced online. An antitrust investigation last year found Amazon and Walmart&#8217;s Flipkart favour select sellers and resorted to &#8220;predatory pricing&#8221;, which hurts smaller retailers. The companies have denied the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian consumer products distributors have filed an antitrust case against big fast-delivery businesses of Zomato, Swiggy and Zepto, calling for an investigation into alleged deep discounting practices, legal papers show. India&#8217;s e-commerce sector has faced intense scrutiny over how products are priced online. An antitrust investigation last year found Amazon and Walmart&#8217;s Flipkart favour select sellers and resorted to &#8220;predatory pricing&#8221;, which hurts smaller retailers. The companies have denied the allegations.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912189","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=912189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}