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Amazon crosses 10 lakh sellers milestone across India

The number of Amazon Easy stores is on track to the 1 lakh stores mark by end of 2021

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Launched in April 2020, ‘Local Shops on Amazon’ brings the benefits of e-commerce to offline retailers and neighbourhood stores

Peerzada Abrar Bengaluru
Amazon India on Wednesday said that over 10 lakh sellers are now selling on its e-commerce platform from across India. The company had started in India in 2013 with 100 sellers and has today grown to be the preferred online destination for sellers across India.

Notably, more than 90 per cent of the sellers on Amazon are small and medium local businesses (SMBs) and over half of these sellers on the marketplace come from tier 2 and tier 3 cities.

Since January 2020, more than 4.5 lakh new sellers have joined Amazon and over one lakh of these

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