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Get ready for Amazon Great Indian Festival this September-October
We are excited to share that the 9th edition of the Amazon Great Indian Festival (GIF) is coming this September-October to light up your festive cheer. Read more here.
What is Amazon Great Indian Festival? Here’s a quick guide to the month-long shopping extravaganza
The Amazon Great Indian Festival is an annual shopping event that allows customers shopping on Amazon.in to access never-seen-before deals on lakhs of products across different categories. The 2023 edition of the Great Indian Festival saw more than 40 lakh new customers shop on Amazon India for the first time.
We answer all your top questions about the biggest festive shopping event of the year here.
New to Amazon? Here are some tips to help you get started
Ahead of the Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024, discover how to navigate Amazon.in like a seasoned shopper—from setting up your account and finding the best deals to signing up for a Prime membership. Here are 9 tips to get you started.
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024 date revealed
It’s official! Amazon.in’s most awaited shopping event—Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024—is back on September 27, 2024, with Prime members getting a 24-hour early access window. Customers can now enjoy exciting offers on the widest selection of products and new launches across categories along with fast and reliable delivery. Read more about it here.
Amazon.in continues to be India’s trusted and preferred online shopping destination
Indians are excited to up their online spending on everything ranging from electronics and groceries to fashion & beauty products, ahead of the festive season. According to an Ipsos study commissioned by Amazon India, over half of the survey participants (who intend to shop online) stated they would spend more on festive shopping this year. Read more here.
Amazon’s Great Indian Festival 2023 saw a record number of new shoppers. These are the top products people ordered
Curious to know what Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024 has in store for you? It's going to be bigger and better. Lets look at some numbers from the 2023 edition: bank discounts and rewards helped customers save over ₹600 crore; about 50% of Prime orders were delivered within 48 hours or less; 38,000 sellers clocked their highest-ever single-day sales. Here's how customers and sellers benefited from Great Indian Festival 2023.
The Amazon Pay ICICI Bank co-branded Visa credit card can get you more discounts on your festive shopping
As you prepare for the upcoming Amazon Great Indian Festival, read more about the Amazon Pay ICICI Bank co-branded Visa credit card. From zero fees and unlimited cashbacks to exclusive discounts—discover all the benefits offered by India’s fastest growing co-branded credit card that is used by more than 5 million customers. Here's everything you need to know about it.
Amazon creates over 110,000 seasonal positions in its operations network ahead of the festive season
Amazon India has created more than 110,000 seasonal job opportunities across its operations network to meet the increased customer demand during this period. These opportunities include direct and indirect jobs in cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Chennai, among others.
As part of the move, Amazon has hired thousands of women associates into its operations network and also onboarded about 1,900 persons with disabilities (PWDs) as associates. Read about it here.
How you can use images to shop faster on Amazon.in with Amazon Lens
Use Amazon Lens to upload an image, take a photo, or scan a barcode and discover exact matches and similar items in the Amazon.in shopping app. Read more about this feature here.
How to make and share an Amazon Wish List
Amazon Wish Lists are a great way to keep track of the items you want most, and the deals you want to take advantage of. During busy shopping times like the Great Indian Festival, Prime Day, birthdays, or the holidays in general, your Amazon Wish List will come in handy to organise things and keep track of prices and deals on Amazon’s marketplace. When the price of an item drops or a coupon or deal becomes available, you can choose to be notified via push alert if you’re using the Amazon app. Here's you can create them.
All you need to know about Amazon Prime membership plans in India ahead of the Great Indian Festival 2024
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024 is almost upon us and Prime members are best positioned to benefit from this month-long shopping event. Eligible customers can choose from multiple pricing options and pay for Prime benefits that best fit their shopping, shipping, and entertainment requirements. Learn more about these tiers here.
Amazon's beta version Rufus, a new generative AI-powered conversational shopping assistant can help you shop during Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024
Rufus is an expert shopping assistant trained on Amazon’s product catalogue and information from across the web, to answer customer questions on shopping needs, products, and comparisons, make recommendations based on this context, and facilitate product discovery in the same Amazon shopping experience customers use regularly. Here's everything about how you can use it.
For customers in North East India, Amazon is set to boost delivery speeds this festive season with the launch of 3 new Fulfillment Centres
The new FCs launched in Delhi NCR, Guwahati, and Patna, have a combined storage space of over 1.2 million cubic feet and will enable faster fulfillment of orders during the festive season and beyond. These will also create thousands of local job opportunities in the region that entail a variety of roles in Amazon’s operations network, including full-time and part-time opportunities. Read more here.