Category: News & Views

We explained to you What is Kiosk Retailing and Why someone opts for the same in our post earlier this week. We will now cover on various Kiosk Retail Business Models in Vogue in India.

Mr. Orange from MX Foods sells fresh fruits juices from its orange shaped kiosks that were innovatively designed in Spain.

Reliance Money began its operations since its inception through kiosk retail to reach out as many customers as possible. It has already deployed 2,500 (more…)

Arvind Brands owned Megmart is cutting down on the number of large format stores the company will own by 2010 – earlier estimated to be 30 is now reduced to 20. Company sources said that delayed project completion by realtors is a (more…)

Most of you must have witnessed Vendors retailing through Kiosks in your neighborhood Malls, High Street Retail areas, Departmental Stores or Hypermarkets. Have you ever wondered What is this all about and Why ? Here is what we found in our research 🙂

The concept of Kiosk retailing is fast catching up at convenient and eye-catching venues to attract (more…)

With an aim to expose its retail products in innumerable kirana stores, Mukesh Ambani promoted, Reliance Retail, is planning ways to sell its private labels in food and groceries to kirana (more…)

Taking a leaf out of Telecom success story, Indian retailers are moving on similar lines as they shift their focus on retailing in 2009 from Metros and Cosmopolitan cities to Tier-II and Tier-III cities. However, when it comes to Luxury Brands, retailers will stick to Metro cities only. Even the upper end lifestyle retailers have no plans to go beyond Metros currently.

We have already covered in the past on how unrealistic realty prices led to stagnation of Retailers plans. Re-negotiated (more…)

Catalog Shopping / Retailing is the concept of buying from your home browsing through the retailers catalog [hard copy and sometimes online]. The origin of catalog shopping dates back to early 1900 in the western world known under the name mail order shopping. Our focus today is on catalog retailing in India.

I am sure atleast some of you must have heard about the existence of Otto Burlington a decade ago in the Indian market. However, it failed primarily for 3 reasons – in-effective telecommunication interaction, absence of easy mode of payments and a structured (more…)

We have reliably learnt that retail chain, Spencers Retail, is planning to roll out a hypermarket in Nashik by the end of next financial year. For this purpose, (more…)

You have already read that many chains are closing non-viable stores and trying to trim costs wherever possible. It is not yet clear if the slowdown has hit across the board as some retailers continue to push merchandise aggressively.

Indian Retailers have set a target of $50 bn by 2011 which seems possible. However, consumer buying behavior is likely to change very soon as he increasingly looks for higher value for money (more…)