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India to tap Amazon, Flipkart data for inflation revamp
Mint Mumbai
|August 26, 2025
India will start sourcing price data directly from e-commerce giants including Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart to overhaul its benchmark inflation gauge, aiming to capture shifting consumption habits and address concerns that current data is outdated, the head of the statistics ministry said.
The move could make India's retail inflation data more robust by accounting for prices on online platforms as their share in household spending rises. The shift mirrors a global trend, with countries from the US to South Korea integrating scanner and online prices into inflation measures.
India had about 270 million online shoppers in 2024, a figure projected to grow 22% annually, a private study showed.
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