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SuperK has a playbook for solving India’s small-town retail problem

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:48:00 +0000

Hiral Goyal, The Morning Context 18 August 2025 A trend that has been playing out through big and small changes over the last two decades is that in urban India the kirana store is easily replaceable. When it comes to buying groceries, urban Indians have a number of options. They can visit a fancy supermarket […]

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Flipkart Minutes eyes 10-min drug delivery to outpace its rivals

admin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:14:00 +0000

Writankar Mukherjee, Economic Times 3 December 2024 Flipkart is set to shortly start delivering medicines within 10 minutes, likely becoming the first quick commerce service to do so, intensifying competition in this red-hot market. The Walmart-owned company’s Flipkart Minutes service has started enlisting local chemists in the metros from where the products will be sold […]

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India’s e-commerce battlefield gets ready for bloody wars

admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:06:00 +0000

Economic Times 14 November 2024 The Swiggy IPO is making news for being the most successful in a decade in its category. The food and grocery delivery firm yesterday listed at a 5.6% premium to its IPO price of Rs 390, making it the first company with an issue size of over Rs 10,000 crore […]

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India’s Kirana Stores May Suffer The Fate Of Once-Ubiquitous Telephone Booths

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:49:00 +0000

Data suggests that the share of modern retail, including online commerce, which is currently below 10%, is set to cross 30% over the next 3-5 years.

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Are Your Deals Still in the Fridge?

Devangshu Dutta — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:38:31 +0000

Retailers and brands have recently acted as if there is no end to multiplier annual growth rates, and consumers have been only to happy to prove them right. Until now.

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Could Lower Prices Cost More?

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:40:10 +0000

Retailing is at the crossroads. Value judgements are almost always subjective rather than objective. ‘Large versus small’ conflicts are frequently emotive rather than rational. And even though there are no easy answers, I believe we should think about these questions, as businesspeople, as consumers and as social individuals.

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Modernizing Retail – An Alternative View

Devangshu Dutta — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:55:28 +0000

Picture an upper-middle class consumer out shopping groceries in a large, air-conditioned hypermarket after catching the new movie at the mall. Global best-practice is the standard here. The aisles are wide enough to allow two shopping-carts to pass each other comfortably, and are organized according to product categories. The shelves are neatly ticketed, and the […]

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