My Retail Journey

This year, I am fortunate to celebrate RED – Retail Employees Day with over 500 front end staff in my team at Specsmakers. What started on 1...

We were 42 of us who arrived at Spencers Plaza at Chennai, one of the only few malls in India in 2001.  Most of them had come outside of Che...

For the first half of my life, I grew up in Tamil Nadu Housing Board Quarters in Chennai which had odd 800 tenements. Lloyds Colony at Roy...

12 December is celebrated annually as Retail Employees Day, an occasion to thank the frontend staff who have taken up Retail as their pref...

From shopping grocery at Kirana stores to Government Ration Shops to one of the first organized retail shops in India to the supermarkets ...

  After dabbling with various sectors in the Rs 14,000-crore RP-Sanjiv Goenka group for about a year, Shashwat Goenka , 23, son of group c...

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

I recently received an email from Reliance Mart that they would opening their stores at 8am! The email newsletter was a bit incomplete in m...

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...

Despite my request thrice, the staff of India’s first class airline forgot to sell me sandwiches and muffin, my first and most important me...