The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stressing that Amazon’s operations in India should be suspended until a probe into the company is done.
AIMRA, a trade union that represents more than 1.5 lakh mobilephone retailers in the country, said that Amazon, along with leading mobile brands, have joined hands to derail the retail industry and put small retailers’ life in danger.
The association said that Amazon is doing business in India with the strategy of deftly dodging the regulators and politicians.E-commerce companies promote sales on their platforms through their own preferred sellers.
“Unfortunately, E-commemrce companies often are the stakeholders of these preferred sellers. Since 2014, mobile brands have had exclusive tie-up for sales with these very preferred sellers. All stocks are given to the preferred seller so that the e-com platform can show non-involvement and do not suffer any implications,” Arvinder Khurana, National President, AIMRA in the letter that was sent to Modi on Monday.