The solution was to use osmosis to literally fill out and submit the search form, and then scrape the results page. I chose Node because I figured they would have great tooling for web scraping, and I was more or less correct on that one.Īs I began experimenting with the algorithm… err, script, I realized that it was a lot harder than I thought it would be to fake a form submission on Southwest’s website so that I could get to the results page. I could write a script which would, you know, scrape their website for the data I wanted. I figured that straight up scraping their website would be an effective approach. Crawling the Southwest websiteĪ quick look at Southwest’s site revealed no API. What if I wrote a script to do these annoying tasks for me? Yeah. I started to get annoyed with the repetition (surprise, surprise!), so I set out to automate things as best I could. I started checking fare prices periodically throughout the day. I had heard from a few internet-goers that ticket prices would drop on Tuesday nights, so I set out to test that claim.
I decided to look into Southwest, the de facto airline for low fares (not really). I scoured all of the fancy airlines, but all of their fares were too high for my liking. I began by scouring the web for cheap plane tickets, like normal travel folks seem to do. I had the hotel more or less picked out, but the transportation was still up in the air. Ingka Group has three business areas:Â IKEAÂ Retail, Ingka Investments and Ingka Centres.About two months ago, I wanted to go on a vacation. Ingka Group is a strategic partner in the IKEA franchise system, operating 378 IKEAÂ stores in 30 countries. Ingka Holding Overseas B.V., Netherlands held 99.90 per cent equity shares of the company as on on March 31, 2020. It has also paid an amount of Rs 216.2 crore towards interest on securities also. The due date for re-payment of principal amount of such masala bonds is April 23, 2026," it said. "In order to meet with fund requirement, during the financial year 2019-20, the company issued INR denominated bonds amounting to Rs 1,790 crore under the automatic route of FEMA Regulation. IEKA India is also raising funds to support its growth in the country. "The company is also actively engaged with government authorities and state governments with various regulations and laws related to the retail business and furniture industry," it said. The company has also been engaged in completing the land and building rights acquisition process for the land bought in sector 47, Gurgaon in NCR. "The company continues to focus on opportunities to grow the business in existing channels and through opening new channels and units focussing on the cities of Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Delhi NCR," it said.
IKEA is also investing in the online system and has the ambition to reach 100 million Indian customers by 2022 through its omnichannel approach. "We are focussed on reaching the many people in our key markets with products and solutions that are affordable, sustainable, follow the best quality standards and relevant to their life at home," she said.
Part of Ingka Group, IKEA India had opened its first retail store in Hyderabad in August 2018, followed by online stores in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune.īesides its new flagship store in Navi Mumbai, IKEA also has plans to set up two city centre stores in Mumbai to cater the demand from the city. We are in the initial years of operations in the country where we are investing in our priority markets to offer customers an omnichannel experience,â€? said IKEA India CFO Preet Dhupar.
When contacted, IKEA said India is an important market for the company and it is investing to offer customers an omnichannel experience.
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