How Walmart made its way to the finish line with Flipkart

How Walmart made its way to the finish line with Flipkart

A customer with a shopping cart checks his shopping list at a Walmart India Pvt. Best Price Modern Wholesale store in the town of Zirakpur on the outskirts of Chandigarh, Punjab, India, on Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Photographer: Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg

In October, less than two months after Flipkart had agreed to a $2.5 billion investment deal with SoftBank Group Corp., top executives from the American retail giant Walmart reached out to Flipkart. They wanted to discuss a potential deal.

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