My Retail Journey

Indians are fond of their meals, especially their breakfast. Except that they find increasing lesser time - to prepare as well as to consu...

Croma, which is a part of the TATA Group has been my preferred store for shopping all things electronic over the past few years. They custom...

The first store for Reliance came up in Hyderabad. It was a grocery retail format and many skeptics wrote off the idea, citing intense compe...

Restaurant business is damn exciting. While people don’t shop for clothes and mobiles every weekend, most people drop over for a good meal f...

In the early 2000s, there was only one mobile phone brand that was popular in India. It was none other than Nokia. It was considered the “Ma...

It’s a misnomer that Luxury Brands do not discount. Of course, they do. Just that they don’t do it so loudly and obviously as other premium ...

I was recently at Forum Vijaya Mall (Chennai), one of the newest in town. It was a Sunday and I was there for lunch, but the upper level of ...

There was a cover story about Alibaba.com, China’s largest ECommerce company in recent issue of The Economist. Quite a few facts. That it is...

It’s been around a hundred days that I wrote a column on this blog, by far the longest gap I have ever taken since I started writing since 2...