Online Shopping is skyrocketing these days. So here are the Top 10 online shopping sites in India by Alexa ranking in 2020
1. Amazon
No. 1 in online shopping site in India
- Founded By: Jeff Bezos
- Founded on: July 5, 1994
- Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, and Arlington, United States.
- CEO: Jeff Bezos
- Alexa ranking of Amazon.in: 52
It’s not possible that you haven’t heard this name. It is a shopping giant that is one of the most trustworthy brands in India. Here are some unknown facts about Amazon:
- Amazon was first named as ‘Cadabara’ as in “abracadabra”.
- It owns 41 brands including IMDb, Audible, etc.
- Pets are allowed in Amazon headquarters. (Kudos to Dogs and Catpersons).
- If you type in Relentless.com in your browser, you will be redirected to Amazon.com.
- In the starting, it was a bookselling company.
- Employees are allowed to scream in a room after completing their goals
- The Amazon logo has an arrow from a to z which means it sells everything from a to z and puts a smile on the customer’s face.
- The things that you cant buy at amazon are Homes, Cars, pets, and cigarettes.
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2. Flipkart
Flipkart is undoubtedly one of India’s best e-commerce website. It is improving its services day by day.
- Founded By: Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
- Founded on: 2007
- Headquarters: Bengaluru, India.
- CEO: Kalyan Krishnamurthy
- Current Owner: Walmart
- Alexa ranking of flipkart.com: 52
Here are some interesting facts about Flipkart
- In the early days of Flipkart, if you could beat Sachin Bansal in videoGames, dinner was on him.
- The Search Engine of Flipkart is known as Sherlock.
- Flipkart owns Myntra, Jabong.com, PhonePe, Ekart.
- On 9 May 2018, Walmart bought Flipkart for US$16 billion. The world’s largest e-commerce deal.
- Many people think that Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are brothers (because of their surname, off Course). But they are not.
- The First Order on Flipkart was the book ‘Leaving Microsoft to Change the World’ by John Wood.
- Both Binny and Sachin Bansal studied in the same school but didn’t know each other. They became friends from their college IIT-Delhi.
- The Founders have themselves delivered the product on Big Billion Sale day. Imagine, founder of Flipkart knocking on your door to deliver your product.
- In 2014, Flipkart launched its own set of tablets, mobile phones & Phablet with brand name DIGIflip.
- The E-commerce giant has its own in-house home appliances and personal healthcare brand Citron.
- Flipkart wanted to buy Snapdeal at $700-$800 million, but Snapdeal rejected the offer.
3. Paytm
Few facts about Paytm :
- Founded By: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
- Founded on: August 2010
- Headquarters: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- CEO: Renu Satti
- Parent company: One97 Communications
- Current Owner: Alibaba Group, Softbank
- Alexa ranking of flipkart.com: 596
4. Myntra
Few facts about Myntra
- Founded By: Mukesh Bansal, Vineet Saxena, Ashutosh Lawania
- Founded on: 2007
- Headquarters: Bengaluru, India.
- CEO: Amar Nagaram (Jan 2019–)
- Current Owner: Flipkart
- Alexa ranking of flipkart.com: 601
5. Snapdeal
Few facts about Snapdeal
- Founded By: Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal
- Founded on: 2010
- Headquarters: New Delhi, India
- CEO: Kunal Bahl (Feb 2010–)
- Current Owner: Jasper Infotech
- Alexa ranking: 1,169
6. BigBasket
Few facts about BigBasket
- Founded By: Hari Menon, VS Sudhakar, Vipul Parekh, Abhinay Choudhari, VS Ramesh
- Founded on: October 2011
- Headquarters: Bengaluru, India.
- CEO: Hari Menon
- Alexa ranking: 3,606
7. Ajio
Few facts about Ajio
- Founded By: Mukesh Ambani
- Founded on: 2016
- Headquarters: Bengaluru, India.
- Current Owner: Reliance Retail
- CEO: Nair Vineeth
- Alexa ranking: 3,863
8. ShopClues
Few facts about ShopClues
- Founded By: Sanjay Sethi, Radhika Aggarwal, Sandeep Aggarwal
- Founded on: July 2011
- Headquarters: Gurugram, Haryana, India.
- Parent company: Clues Network Pvt. Ltd
- CEO: Sanjay Sethi
- Alexa ranking: 4,660
9. FirstCry
Few facts about FirstCry
- Founded By: Supam Maheshwari
- Founded on: 2010
- Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India.
- CEO: Supam Maheshwari
- Alexa ranking: 4,7321
10. Grofers
Few facts about Grofers
- Founded By: Saurabh Kumar, Albinder Dhindsa
- Founded on: December 2013
- Headquarters: Gurugram, Haryana, India
- CEO: Albinder Dhindsa
- Parent company: Grofers International
- Alexa ranking of Grofers: 10,908
These are the names of top 10 online shopping sites in India by Alexa ranking. Although it seems that this list covers pretty much all the leading companies, but there are few more just inches away from becoming top 10.
For example: Jabong.com( Ranking 11,613), Lenskart, zivame etc. who are working hard to provide the best for their customers, let’s see if they can make the cut in the year end of 2020.
These Alexa ranking figures are taken in November 2019. These figures can change from time to time. For the latest ranking, you can go here and search for it yourself.