eCommerce

Grabmerchant, grab retail, Grab stores

Grab wants to be the future of retail

With its new GrabMerchant marketplace, shops will be more online than ever before.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Vietnam’s online spending to triple to $35b by 2025

Half of Vietnam’s 96 million people will be online shoppers.

fashion, clothes, style, streetwear

Ex-Lazada exec admits defeat with Vietnam fashion store

Luxury flash sales worked in Europe, but not in Vietnam.

Indomie, ramen

Sequoia in $25m funding for Indonesia startup helping mom-and-pop stores to stock up

GudangAda, started just last year, has bagged series A money.

4 years on, cashierless stores are full of empty promises

Now the hype has died down, here’s how Southeast Asia has really been impacted by retail startups.