My Retail Journey

Who killed the Sony Walkman? Apple iPod. Who killed Kodak Films? Digital Cameras.  T here are many such presumptive answers most o...

Like so many other western concepts, Indians have been celebrating Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August for over 2 decades or more...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently announced that Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) are not allowed to carry Indian currency out of the...

I was recently invited to attend the first edition of the Retail Marketing Summit Chennai, organized by Paul Writer, a leading consultancy w...

I have been without a pair of floaters / slippers for over two months now. Just that I’ve not been able to find a Retail Store closeby where...

A year after Borders Group collapsed, a survey by Colliers International shows that one-third of 205 bookstores shut down by the company a...

  Franchising has been around for long. Many global brands such as Adidas, Benetton, Levis, Subway and a lot more have grown globally due ...

Aggressive store expansion means two things – heavy capital expenditure and lots of people to manage the stores. Every brand worth its salt ...

I asked him, “are there people in your store who have had a love-failure"??” and obviously he was confused. He called for his supervis...

No matter how popular or old a retail brand is, they will not be able to reach out to their customers without the continued and trusted effo...

Last week, the Cabinet of the Indian Government allowed 100% FDI in Single Brand Retail and upto 51% FDI in Multi-Brand Retail - it was i...

It was a much-awaited, welcome move by the Cabinet of the Indian Parliament to allow 100% FDI in Single Brand Retail and up to 51% FDI in m...

The past few weeks would have been one of the most tumultuous for India’s five star Airline, Kingfisher ! The Airline and its promoter Dr. ...