Locked Delhi may plug Ecomm flow: Companies fear mass order cancellations by users
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Synopsis
Delhi’s curbs follow Rajasthan’s, where ecommerce firms can only deliver essential products but there is no restriction on goods movement. Last week, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, as well as a few districts in other states with high Covid-19 caseloads, issued similar orders, curbing ecommerce in a bid to stem rapid spread of the virus.
A complete lockdown in New Delhi limiting online retail deliveries to essential goods, and curbing interstate and intrastate movement of non-essentials could trigger a massive pileup of inventory at the state’s borders, and lead to mass cancellations by consumers, according to industry executives.