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Retail industry has been an ever-changing one owing to numerous technological advances. Never before have customers been endowed with such choices as to not only who should they purchase from but also via what channel. In this hiatus, where…

Our current economic situation is bad more due to the lack of initiative from the govt than the global economic crisis. The opening up of FDI has instantly boosted the market health, the Sensex, Indian companies, the ADRs and last but not…

Sahara India has announced its foray into the retail industry in India with Sahara 'Q Shops', where Q stands for quality. Initially, the company plans to start more than 800 shops across 5 states, selling food items, home and personal care…

US based management consulting firm A.T. Kearney published the 2012 Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) and India has been ousted from 4th position by China. The index ranked 30 of the world's top developing countries for investment in…

Mystery shopping has been around in India for almost a decade now. For the uninitiated, it is a method of market research used by corporates or smaller businesses as a metric for the quality of their products and services, usually within…

India is a unique country that has ability of surprising foreigner on pretty much every step. Indian retail sector is noticeably different compared to the one in Europe. While living in India, I was pleasantly surprised of how efficient…

In what could be termed as first of its kind - Nokia has partnered with Indiatimes shopping to bring consumers a direct manufacturer to consumer online store for selling mobile phones called NokiaShop. But, apart from being a direct…

Unlike Multi-brand Retail, which faced stiff resistance, Single Brand Retail Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) seems to have been approved without a hitch! Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry has just released a notification…

Well though their is no denying facts that FDI in Retail will benefit everyone, but if tomorrow  Wal-Mart comes into Indian direct retailing, will it succeed? Let us not forget that Wal-Mart is already in India in JV with Bharti in…

News on opening up of multi-brand retail segment to foreign chains is all over the place in today’s morning newspapers. Still, I would like to address a few important points over here for the benefit of our readers as to the fine print of…

They were produced to decrease the operational and distribution costs. Production in bulk costs lesser than sourcing expensive brands from various countries and stocking them in the store. While expensive and famous labels are meant to be…

The Indian retail industry is expected to grow to around US$ 800 billion by 2015 with more than 20% being contributed by the organized retail formats. Despite poor infrastructure, lack of cold chains – a necessity for food retail,…

Top CEOs of multi-national retailers have been lobbying hard for a long time to open up FDI in multi-branded retail for a long time. Obama’s visit this week with his cabal is now touted as the tipping point for the government to change its…

Retail Sector in India was being hailed as Sunshine sector just a couple of years back – Many Indian players entered it to grab potentially huge retail Indian consumer market and grew very aggressively. But it seems that sun is not shining…

The Retail sector is touted as the new modern day industry. In fact, India has been ranked as the most attractive country for retail investment among 30 emerging markets. However, the ride for this rapidly growing industry does not come…

Retail is one of the most developing sector in the country with new players and new malls joining the bandwagon daily. But then with ever new player joining in, one or many are also losing out. As the famous saying goes “Someone’s gain is…

India’s over 600,000 villages and a rural population of over 700 million present a very unique and challenge opportunity for various organizations. The fact that this population has completely different needs, wants and desires compared to…

Recently I went to a super-fancy mall GAP Inc retail store here in US and bought a couple of shirts (priced above Rs. 2000 easily). I came back and noticed the tag on the inner side of the shirt said “Made in India”. It may not be an…

The Indian retail industry has been riding a wave for the last couple of years. According to a latest report, retail sales are expected to rise from US$ 343 billion currently to US$ 543 billion. Reliance Fresh, Subhiksha, Vishal Retail,…

(Article reproduced with Author’s permission) A few weeks back I invested a princely sum of money to buy my Airmax 2010 Nike shoes from the flagship store in San Francisco. Last week, just before traveling again, I washed my shoes and…