Flipkart back to the company for approximately US$1.1 billion, and re-launch its own Indian operations. The company stated that "there is huge growth potential for e-commerce in India and significant opportunity for multiple players to succeed in India's diverse, domestic market." Softbank Group also sold its entire 20% stake to Walmart, without disclosing terms of the sale. The acquisition was completed on 18 August 2018. Walmart also provided US$2 billion in equity funding to the company. On 13 November 2018, Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal resigned, after facing an allegation of "serious personal misconduct". Walmart stated that "while the investigation did not
Coles Online regions that had been in operation for 10 years. In April 2009, Coles Online began deliveries to Perth for the first time, and in June of the same year became the first major grocery retailer to introduce online shopping to Adelaide. Coles Online also began deliveries to Hamilton Island in mid 2009 and ceased them in 2016. Coles relaunched its web site in 2013. This significantly improved the functionality of the site by including features such as comparison. The checkout process was also simplified and the ability to build a basket from a shopping list. Filtering of products with attributes