'The Shops Are Gone': How Reliance Stunned Amazon in Battle for India's Future Retail

Reuters2022-03-07

At a large Future Retail supermarket in Mumbai last week, workers were unloading hundreds of bright blue grocery crates belonging to India's biggest retailer Reliance.Prospective customers were turned...

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koolgal
2022-03-07
koolgal
It looks like Reliance has the upper hand in the battle for India's Future Retail Stores that Amazon has a share. Will Amazon exit from India 's retail stores now?
newminted
2022-03-07
newminted
Ok
Sysy
2022-03-07
Sysy
Ok
Wlonggy
2022-03-07
Wlonggy
Like and commer please
Hartanto
2022-03-07
Hartanto
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EHG
2022-03-07
EHG
Oh wow

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Combined, they represent the crown jewels of Future's retail network and around a third of all Future outlets.Although Reliance had not played a large public role in the legal dispute, it had, according to sources, for some months assumed many of the leases held by cash-strapped Future, India's No. 2 retailer and Amazon's estranged business partner.Reliance's sudden possession of the stores appears to have landed what some analysts are calling a coup de grace that spoils Amazon's chances of untangling the transfer of Future's assets to Reliance. That's despite a series of legal battles won by the U.S. e-commerce giant to date blocking the 2020 deal announced between the two Indian companies.\"What will Amazon fight for now?\" said a source close to the U.S. company with knowledge of the legal dispute. \"The shops are gone.\"Representatives for Reliance, Amazon and Future did not respond to Reuters queries for this article. 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