My Retail Journey

Commencing this weekend (23 June), almost all Fashion Brands in India will go on EOSS – End of Season Sale, a biennial activity that has b...

I have enjoyed my pizzas better at the restaurant that at home, all along. It is more to do with the fun of dining – you plan a trip to the ...

Croma, which is a part of the TATA Group has been my preferred store for shopping all things electronic over the past few years. They custom...

In the early 2000s, there was only one mobile phone brand that was popular in India. It was none other than Nokia. It was considered the “Ma...

I recently happened to meet Rahul Singh, Founder and CEO of “The Beer Café”, an upcoming chain in Delhi NCR, based out of Gurgaon. Rahul com...

It’s a misnomer that Luxury Brands do not discount. Of course, they do. Just that they don’t do it so loudly and obviously as other premium ...

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 ...

  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...

A couple of days back, I had a meeting in the city (Chennai, where I live three days a week when I ain’t travelling!). The host was willing ...

  Popular Media is in full force discussing the pros and cons of opening up FDI in multi-brand Retail, announced by the Manmohan Singh led...

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...

Retailers in India seem to be continuing their efforts to open new stores, despite a slowing economy, higher import values, a falling rupee,...

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...

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

I was recently interviewed by Mr. Pawan Gupta who manages the  E-Business India Forum  on LinkedIn. Here are the excerpts; Pawan: Indiapl...