12-11-2015 23:04 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Amazon may export delivery lessons from India to cut costs abroad

By Aditi Shah BENGALURU, India (Reuters) - E-commerce giant Amazon.com is taking lessons learnt from its daily battles with India's choked roads and cramped cities to some of its largest developed markets, exporting a model of cheaper deliveries and reduced warehousing costs. Online shopping is booming in India, where millions of consumers are newly able to access the Internet thanks to cheap smartphones. For Amazon, it is already the largest contributor of new customers outside the United State
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