Why Amazon is confronting the richest man in India

The technology giant put down $US200 million two years ago to get first dibs to buy the retail assets of the Future Group, but that put Amazon in the way of Reliance Industries.

Reliance chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani with his wife, Nita, in 2019. Bloomberg

Aman Sethi

Jun 8, 2021 – 4.43pm

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New Delhi | Amazon and one of the world’s richest men are engaged in a multibillion-dollar, politically fraught clash over Rani Pillai’s favourite place to buy groceries.

Pillai, a retired nurse, is a regular shopper at Big Bazaar, a low-slung supermarket nestled beneath a metro station in a middle-class neighbourhood in east Delhi.