Lalit Agarwal

While retailers are hopeful festivals may spark some demand, they expect the slowdown to end only after September 2024 i.e. Q2 FY 2025New Delhi: A rebound for retail businesses in India—which is currently reeling under a substantial slowdown—could only...

Come December 12 and the Retail Industry across the globe  trains the spotlight on retail associates and celebrates them on the occasion of Retail Employees Day (RED). December 12 is the day to acknowledge retail associates who work with heart....

In a significant boost to the already robust leadership team of V-Mart Retail, the company announced Vineet Jain, retail industry veteran and former CEO, Future Group, North India, has joined as its new Chief Operating Officer. An industry veteran who...

Faced with disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns, several retailers took that opportunity to improve communication within their respective organisations which eventually helped them towards smooth business resumption in the unlock phase. Also, a communication up-skilling of...

V-Mart Retail, India’s leading value fashion retailer with presence across 19 states and 191 towns, announced its audited financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2020. Owing to COVID-19 pandemic and a nationwide lockdown for most of Q1,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has completely rehashed what we knew was retail. The pandemic has plunged the industry into a crisis of unprecedented proportions and completely changed the way businesses will be compelled to function from hereon. As lockdown restrictions...

India’s retail sector employs over 46 million of her citizens. A vast majority of them come from middle-income and lower-income salaried classes from across India’s urban, peri-urban and rural heartlands. Their livelihoods and futures are in immediate peril as...

The country is in lockdown, businesses are folding up, workers being laid off and the overall retail confidence level is low. COVID-19 has changed communities, businesses, and the world forever. As retail businesses continue to work through the current...

Leading retailers have witnessed an increase in number of footfalls along with a ‘significant’ jump in average purchase value in the third phase of the lockdown. According to industry players such as Metro Cash & Carry, Lots Wholesale Solutions,...

The second phase of the coronavirus lockdown saw a considerable shift in buying patterns of consumers from basic necessities to high-value items like snacks, processed food, packaged meat and frozen desserts, retailers said. According to a PTI report: Retailers such...