{"id":942376,"date":"2025-06-30T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942376"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:59:19","slug":"the-market-is-on-the-phone-now-kashmirs-retail-dials-into-digital-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/the-market-is-on-the-phone-now-kashmirs-retail-dials-into-digital-era\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Market is on the Phone Now\u2019: Kashmir\u2019s Retail Dials Into Digital Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, June 29: A quiet yet decisive transformation is sweeping the retail sector in Kashmir. From the bustling streets of Srinagar to the interiors of Ganderbal and Baramulla, more local shopkeepers are now selling their goods online \u2014 a shift driven by changing consumer habits, intense market competition, and the expansion of courier services across the Valley. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier, I didn\u2019t have to move outside the shop to find customers, but now I have to \u2014 though it\u2019s via online \u2014 to reach them,\u201d said Aijaz Ahmad, a garment seller from Ganderbal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, June 29: A quiet yet decisive transformation is sweeping the retail sector in Kashmir. From the bustling streets of Srinagar to the interiors of Ganderbal and Baramulla, more local shopkeepers are now selling their goods online \u2014 a shift driven by changing consumer habits, intense market competition, and the expansion of courier services across the Valley. \u201cEarlier, I didn\u2019t have to move outside the shop to find customers, but now I have to \u2014 though it\u2019s via online \u2014 to reach them,\u201d said Aijaz Ahmad, a garment seller from Ganderbal.<\/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":[21,47,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-it-2-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942376","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=942376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}