[jestinjoy1]

e-commerce changed the way people buy things here in remote places in India. They could buy things that was not even in their dreams few years back. E-commerce advertisements cover most front pages of newspapers now. More startups are coming up in logistics space. Amazon, Alibaba etc has started investing here seeing the market potential. Logistics here is a big problem. Since local sellers are feeling the heat, they are doing everything they can to stop e-commerce players.

[bruceb]

While there is improvement some local sellers can do they also are not getting a fair fight. E commerce giants are funded by massive amounts of VC money and selling products are unsustainable prices. That has lessened now but it is hard to compete if your competitor doesn't have to make money for a while.

[hackuser]

How will this impact people? Many of those local sellers already are very poor. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that families are starving as a consequence. For example, thousands of farmers in India are committing suicide per year, apparently due to economic conditions.

[sremani]

The suicide by drinking pesticides were happening for a long time, especially since mid-90s. The rate of increase has more to do with public policy , price controls and sub-par pesticides, fertilizers and seeds. The cock-tail of GATT, WTO restriction on farmer subsidies coupled with price controls and adulterated products, has created the farmer suicide hell.

ECommerce and logistics have nothing to do with it.