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  • Amazon Prime Members In India Get Access To The Widest Range Of Products Delivered On Same Day Or Faster

    INDIA: Amazon Prime now delivers more than 10 lakh items same-day and more than 40 lakh items next-day, while strengthening its commitment towards more sustainable deliveries.

    Amazon India continues to innovate to enable an ever-larger selection of fast, reliable, and convenient delivery options for customers across India. From pioneering next-day delivery in India, back in 2014, to the introduction to launching same-day delivery in 2017 for Prime members, we have continued to prioritize fast and reliable delivery across the largest selection of products. To ensure we cater to evolving customer needs, we have strengthened the selection of items available for same-day and next-day delivery. Today, Prime members get free, unlimited same-day delivery on more than 10 lakh items and next-day delivery on more than 40 lakhs items on Amazon.in.

    Globally, after delivering at our fastest speeds ever in 2023, Amazon has set a new delivery speed record for Prime members, with more than 5 billion items arriving the same or the next day, so far this year (2024) In India, so far in 2024, nearly 50% of all Prime member orders across a wide selection of products from eyeliners to baby products, to garden tools, to watches, to phones, have arrived the next-day, same-day, or faster. 

    Prime has grown over the years to include savings, convenience, and entertainment all in a single membership. Prime members now enjoy special deals on shopping events like Prime Day and Amazon Great Indian Festival, as well as award-winning entertainment with Prime Video, unlimited ad-free access to millions of songs and top podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, books and magazines with Prime Reading, and 5% cashback on Amazon Pay ICICI Bank credit card while shopping on Amazon. In addition, members can also earn unlimited 2% reward points on payments at 100+ Amazon Pay partner merchants and 1% reward points on all other payments, across 35 cities in India.

    We’ve evolved to make customers’ lives easier by ensuring a wide selection for them to shop for things they need and love while ensuring they get it quickly. Here’s how:

    We’ve continued to strengthen our focus on delivery speeds for Prime members with the expansion of our same-day delivery network. Today, twice as many Prime members receive same-day deliveries versus the same period in 2023.

    Our fulfillment centers provide storage space to lakhs of sellers across 15 states. We have sortation centers across 19 states working with over 1,950 delivery stations operated by Amazon and local entrepreneurs, and our 28,000 third-party delivery partners to deliver smiles to customers across the country. Amazon India delivers 100% serviceable pin codes.

    With the help of AI, we’ve been able to serve customers faster at scale. We’ve leveraged the power of machine learning to expand the selection of products and recommended sellers to move the selection closer to customers for them to order and re-order consistently.

    We’re delivering at faster speeds on the widest and largest selection of products to our Prime members, while also improving the overall safety of our employees. Delivering packages faster isn’t about moving faster inside our facilities— it’s about optimizing our structure and product placement. We’ll continue to make our workplaces safer, even as we get faster.

    “We’re continuously innovating to bring new levels of convenience, value, and delivery options that work best for our customers. Through operational innovations to increase same and next-day deliveries, we’ve put products that our customers need and want as close as possible to them. We’re immensely proud of our progress so far, but we know there are ‘miles to go’ and much more that we can innovate to continue delivering smiles to our customers,” said Akshay Sahi Director and Country Head, of Amazon Prime, Delivery Experience, India.

    What was true when Amazon was founded remains true today: customers want a wide selection, low prices, and fast delivery. Amazon is expanding selection and delivering faster than ever and remains committed to those core customer values.

  • upGrad-led Harappa’s survey unveils Gender Pay Gap widest in Top Leadership roles

    Bangalore, seventeenth March 2023: Harappa – a part of Asia’s largest built-in Learning, Skilling, & Workforce Development firm upGrad, at present unveiled, ‘The Grand Women & Workplace Report’ — India’s most definitive examine on ladies’s ambitions, profession interferences {and professional} realities. Layered throughout profession milestones and with inputs from greater than 1,500 professionals in India Inc, the findings carry to gentle a variety of crucial points affecting ladies in the office. The thought-provoking insights embody:

    · Women most worth development (82% of respondents) and elevated compensation (78%) at work together with a supportive ecosystem to realize these. Contrary to common perception, lower than a 3rd of the ladies surveyed picked versatile work choices and work-life stability as key themes.

    · More than 100 years after the primary International Women’s Day being noticed, the taking part in discipline is way from levelled. The widest valley in the gender pay hole tragically happens in the highest ranks of management. For each Rs 100 that males on the CXO-levels earn, their ladies counterparts earn Rs 74.

    · While ladies professionals excel at gross sales and are bringing in income, they aren’t being entrusted sufficient with funding choices. Profit & Loss mandates nonetheless elude ladies, with the largest hole occurring between women and men division leads — at 65% vs 29%, respectively.

    · While most ladies who take profession breaks achieve this for parenthood (58%), males usually tend to pause skilled pursuits to additional their schooling (48%). The disparity doesn’t cease at beginning a household: ladies spend 2.5X extra time caregiving, day by day, by means of their careers.

    “Unfortunately, ladies’s careers proceed to be the best impediment course in historical past, marred by damaged rungs, glass ceilings, glass cliffs, and deep valleys of pay gaps and position inequities. These are crucial challenges and realities to handle and repair. India’s ascent to changing into one of many world’s high economies will want all its expertise to contribute meaningfully, and progress pretty, and we hope that our report is another reminder to proceed to endeavour to repair these,” stated Harappa Co-founders, Shreyasi Singh and Pramath Raj Sinha in a joint quote.

    “The Women and Workplace report on the challenges ladies face in the office is a wake-up name. It provides us pressing priorities to handle to make sure that each worker feels valued and revered, no matter gender. We should do higher to assist and empower ladies, not simply because it’s the appropriate factor to do, however as a result of it’s crucial to our long-term success,” concluded Ronnie Screwvala, Co-founder & Chairperson, upGrad.