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Gold on hold: What’s the jewellery industry’s playbook after PM Modi’s call to curb gold buying?

admin — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:58:00 +0000

Anushka Jha & Kausar Madhyia, Afaqs 12 May 2026 On May 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the nation, made some appeals to the citizens of India. In addition to asking Indians to re-adopt Covid-like practices of working from home and refraining from travel abroad, the prime minister also appealed to the […]

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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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Shiprocket Unveils Shunya AI: What The E-Commerce AI Shift Means for MSMEs

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:34:00 +0000

Prabhanu Kumar Das, Medianama 16 July 2025 E-commerce logistics platform Shiprocket announced the launch of Shunya.ai, a sovereign AI model developed in India to support the country’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), on July 11. The company claims that it is India’s first multimodal AI stack, built in partnership with US-based Ultrasafe Inc. This […]

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How Zomato’s Opaque Ad Model Is Squeezing Small Restaurants’ Margins and Forcing Unsustainable Spending

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:25:00 +0000

Aakriti Bansal, MediaNama June 5, 2025 A restaurant owner recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to publicly slam Zomato for “mystery charges” and unauthorised ad placements, reigniting concerns over how the platform treats its small business partners. The tweet, accompanied by screenshots of the restaurant’s earnings dashboard, claimed that despite months of listings, his restaurant […]

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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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Game of toys

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:48:00 +0000

Written By Vaishnavi Gupta UAE-based Tablez has launched a kids’ super store in India Tablez, the retail arm of UAE-based LuLu Group, has launched its kids’ super store House of Toys in India. Tablez has been around in the country as the master franchisee of brands such as Desigual, Build-A-Bear, Go Sport, Yoyoso, Cold Stone […]

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Is Retail Design Tone Deaf?

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:51:37 +0000

As a customer do you feel uncomfortable in some spaces? Maybe noise is to blame.
As a retail professional, do you wonder what could help you grow your sales? Improving the "sound experience" could do the trick.

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Fashioning Seasons

Tarang Gautam Saxena — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:18:24 +0000

Many brands and retailers have seized the opportunity of general elections to run promotional campaigns - could this become another fashion season?

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Supermercado in Houston – Wal-Mart in Spanish

Devangshu Dutta — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:04:09 +0000

Wal-Mart has just opened a new store Supermercado de Walmart in Houston (Texas). The Houston Chronicle reports that the Supermercado aims to reach out to the Hispanic population, tailoring the foods more to Hispanic tastes and needs and adding signs in Spanish. Wal-Mart is also reportedly planning to open a Mas Club this summer, based on its Sam's Club warehouse outlet, but focussed again on Hispanic customers. Going by some of the negative comments attracted by the article, it is legitimate to ask: what will Wal-Mart's existing customers think, and how will they behave?
I guess the answer is clearly not black or white (or beige, red, yellow or brown for that matter).
Wal-Mart is segmenting and localizing its offer as a smart information-rich retailer should.
Some customers who hold a tightly parochial view may feel alienated when they read about this development and may stop shopping at Wal-Mart, but most probably won't bother as long as their local Wal-Mart continues to deliver what they want at prices they like.
Today many of the diverse segments today in the US are large enough to express their unique needs, and expect them to be fulfilled. While the cookie-cutter approach served well during the years of national expansion across homogenized markets, that approach is counter-productive today. A retailer like Wal-Mart can't be expected to ignore that fact.

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Shopping Centres – Boon or Bane

Devangshu Dutta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:25:14 +0000

Many people treat shopping centres or malls as a new phenomenon in India. Some see them as a progressive development of recent times, while others view them as a modern blot on the traditional cityscape. Hundreds of mall-experiments that have been launched in the last 7-8 years. Some of the significant and common issues are starting to be addressed, but many others remain.

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