My Retail Journey

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...

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

There has been enough spoken and written about the Flipkart-Myntra deal. Online Commerce is no more a hype at the moment and there is no mo...

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...

A former colleague of mine, a Swiss gentleman once quipped that everyday in India is a festival day! Well, he was right in a way, maybe not ...

photo courtesy moodiereport.com It was rather annoying that I didn’t get a refill lead for my Mont Blanc Pencil at the flagship store of th...

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...