My Retail Journey

The Ola App says your driver will arrive in 3 mins. It’s already 4.26 mins and you are irked. The Swiggy App says your food is on the ...

After a long time, I went shopping. Once again, of course during EOSS popularly known as End of Season Sale which usually occurs twice a ...

The term “Happy Hours’ is better known for a “Buy One. Get One Drink Free” at most bars and restaurants all across the world. F&B Retail...

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...

Santa Claus is a symbol of positivity and cheer, is well known. But he has been used as a constant Brand Ambassador by Retailers all over th...

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...

I was at the Starbucks (SBUX) outlet in South Mumbai a few days ago. SBUX, in a JV with the Tata Group  opened their first outlet in India ...

After the successful launch of 137 stores across the country, Fastrack, the leading youth fashion accessories brand (a division of Titan Ind...

It has been a regular discussion point in Retail circles about the imminent Indian entry of IKEA, the Swedish Retailer which is also the lar...

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

  After a lot of careful consideration over the past few months, including reading various literature online and discussion with friends a...

I was recently in Chennai and happened to see an advertisement in the newspaper from a leading footwear Retailer announcing End of Season S...

Yet another mall opened its doors recently in Bangalore – this time in the far eastern limits of Bangalore, near Whitefield. After a succes...