By creating irrelevant market places and creating lots of malls with sameness in setting, what went wrong was the damage to the equilibrium that a shopping centre business requires. Pranay Sinha, MD, Starcentres, discusses...

Adding Animation to Retail
Anyone who has been around tots would have witnessed the phenomenon of ‘eating with the cartoons’, that is, to be tuned onto their favourite TV show if even a single food particle is to be ingested. The same principle applies to everyday items that children use – garments, pencil boxes and school bags...

Right-sizing on Loyalty
Customer Loyalty, BE it a behavioural construct or a profit maximiser, continues to be an intriguing riddle; with some believing that it is a potent tool to reap better returns and many others holding that it is about an emotional involvement with the consumers, where profits figure at the tail end...

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