The retail segment is perhaps the most crucial area of the economy of any country and its focus of its growth and strength. The Indian retail industry is no exception to this rule. Since independence, in the 7 decades of India, the industry has passed through different stages of development in all areas of the industry and service and there are a lot of changes in this retail sector. Starting from the biomed system in India, it has advanced in e-commerce from the uncounted retail and now organized retail in the various stages. E-commerce is booming in today’s world and with extension of e-commerce mobile commerce (le. m-commerce). Now with the strong hold of e-commerce in the retail market, and other online platform such as mobile market growth, digital India etc. organized retail is more likely to be impacted by e-commerce and m-commerce. Due to this capacity in this e-commerce and m-commerce, different large business houses also entered in the retail market. Some of them are with Big Bazar, Reliance Fresh and D-Mart etc. even JIO is preparing to enter into online sector. Entering into the retail sector, and competing for a share of the business with such a large population of about 125 Crores of India. With the establishment of large outlets in metropolitan and urban areas, they have to some extent given competition to the smaller and existing players in the market. The full purpose of these businesses is to prepare a strategy where the manufacture arrives directly and minimizes the levels in the middlemen and distribution cycles and offers many products under the same roof with heavy discount. Now such retail business houses as well as manufacturers have started their own outlets in urban cities. Organized retail areas are called. With the Indian economy opening up to all retail sectors, India has now started increasing foreign investment by tweaking its foreign direct investment (FDI) policy. Wal-Mart, such as the International retail chain outlet has entered India to become part of the large potential retail segment. This study focuses on the influence of online e-commerce and m-commerce segments on retail businesses with detection of global effect on Indian economy and its gross domestic income.
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Keywords: Retail Business, Mobile Commerce, Intermediaries, International Trade, Competition.