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...

I started my career in Retail in 1997, scooping ice-cream at Basin Robbins' second outlet in India and first in Chennai (then, Madras)...

I bought my first mobile phone, a Samsung R 220 in 2002 when I used to work at Musicworld in Kolkata. Those days, it set me back by over R...

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...

Photo courtesy: krishmall.blogspot.com One of the biggest blockbusters in tamil cinema, “ Mankatha ” featuring Ajith Kumar and Trisha Krish...

My initial happiness started worrying me after sometime – after all who wouldn’t want to achieve their Sales targets! When I was told earlie...

If there is any regret I would nurse all my professional life, it would be not meeting Mr. Raghu Pillai, whose sudden demise this morning ...

Looking at the eagerness of a family to see how a Compact Disc works was amazing – this was in the year 2001 at the Musicworld store at Park...