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10th Year Of Festive Season Sales: 5 Trends That Will Define Clash Of Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho & Cos This Year

admin — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 06:07:00 +0000

Indian ecommerce anticipates a stronger festive season growth driven by the D2C segment's expected 40% QoQ surge but retailers are also preparing for economic challenges to hit consumers’ spending

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Tesco in India: Will every little help?

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:37:39 +0000

Tesco and the Tata Group have announced their joint-venture in India. To figure out how it will grow needs us to pre-empt and second-guess the future plans of business executives who are trying to read the intent of politicians who are focussed on elections 4 months into the future.

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Go Your Own Way

Devangshu Dutta — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:48:10 +0000

What should we make of several partnership break-downs in the Indian retail sector?

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Wal-Mart brakes, Indian JV hits the wall

Devangshu Dutta — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:45:34 +0000

A year ago, Wal-Mart had called Bharti its natural retail partner in India. But the companies have jointly and publicly changed their relationship statuses to “single”, calling off the 6-year old marriage. What next?

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The Year That Could Be

Devangshu Dutta — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:50:39 +0000

The first response of most people to the question “What happened in the Indian retail sector in 2011” would be probably something like this: lots happened, and then – at the end – nothing did! So what does 2012 hold?

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FDI in Retail: More heat than light

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:56:06 +0000

The Indian Cabinet has said “yes” to 51% foreign investment in multi-brand retail, but the debate is not really over – how can it be when it remains still alive and kicking in some of the most consolidated markets in the West?

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A Thousand Miles

Devangshu Dutta — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:01:38 +0000

The last three years have been a roller coaster ride for food & grocery modern retail in India. Here's a view from inside one of the cars. [More...]

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Pack it yourself – refill when you buy

Devangshu Dutta — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:41:12 +0000

Asda has devised a system for customers to buy fabric conditioner from a vending machine pumping liquid from the stockroom directly into a pouch. The project aims to cut costs and prices. A number of people were underwhelmed by the whole concept. I feel somewhat differently. [More...]

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Retreating Retailers, Crumbling BRICs?

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:37:21 +0000

On the sourcing-end, large retailers have been comfortably operating beyond international borders for several decades even while the stores-end of their business was entirely domestic. It took the opening up of East European economies in the 1990s to really prime the pump for growth of international retail expansion. Are we seeing the reversal of retail globalization?

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Local Chains

Devangshu Dutta — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:46:50 +0000

There is a need for stores to be consistent across a chain, but can the consistency be restrictive and lead to a less locally relevant product mix? How much localization is good for a chain and what could be the ways to make it happen? (More...)

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