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Retail
How malls are embracing and leveraging technology
With digital disruption setting in, the future of malls and retailers is becoming unclear. However, malls can leverage technology, using it to give them a competitive advantage and to get ahead in the customer acquisition race.
Every 50 years or so, retailing has...
INDIA FOOD FORUM - Food & Grocery
Is Neighborhood Market the answer to Walmart's discount challenges?
Visiting Walmart’s latest Neighborhood Market prototype in Fayetteville, Ark., earlier this month, it struck me how compelling a proposition the format is becoming, and how it could be a powerful element of the retailer’s strategy to compete with growing...
INDIA FOOD FORUM - Food & Grocery
Walmart to study FDI fineprint before setting up food-only outlets in India
The world’s largest retail chain, Walmart, is looking at the new regulatory environment for setting up food-only outlets in India.
The Government on Monday permitted 100 per cent foreign direct investment in retailing food produced or manufactured in India...READ MORE
Retail
FDI in retail: Milestones from 2006 to 2016
Making India the most open economy in the world, Modi Government recently announced its second major reform in FDI soon after its radical changes announced in November last year.
The Government, since the beginning, has been taking steps to boost FDI in...
Technology
How technology is powering the retail bandwagon
Technology and Retail
With Omnichannel strategy gaining ground in India, the retail sector, including Food & Grocery, is looking up to myriad innovations that will help to tap today’s tech-savvy customers.
The sector is responding to shifts in the consumer buying behaviour. However, consumer...
Retail
Redefining the physical store in an Omnichannel world
Omnichannel trends have become the 'burning platform' for our industry. These trends are having a major impact across channels, with recent headlines providing powerful examples: 'Shoppers Flock to Online Merchants', 'Walmart to Close 269 Stores', and 'Retailers Struggle'. To win over the...
Food
Cracking the challenge of selling to 10 million grocers in India
Selling is as old as the hills. It started with Eve persuading Adam to eat the forbidden apple. This ancient art, at first so simple, has turned into something complex in a complicated country like India. In India, selling is a...
INDIA FOOD FORUM - Food Services
New FDI policy may begin a big food fight between Amazon and Walmart
Amazon and Walmart, American super sellers, may start an Indian version of their US battle in the wake of the new FDI policy. With the Centre allowing ecommerce in food products (provided they are sourced/processed here) Amazon and Walmart...
Food & Grocery
AmazonFresh enters London, steps up pressure on UK supermarkets
Amazon has launched a British version of its US AmazonFresh food delivery service in central and east London, raising pressure on Britain’s already under-pressure “Big Four” supermarkets.
Its touted as a long-anticipated move by the world's largest online retailer to...
INDIA FOOD FORUM - Food Services
Walmart to partner with Uber, Lyft for pilot grocery delivery programme
Walmart has announced plans to team up with Uber and Lyft on a pilot grocery delivery programme, in a fresh challenge by the US retail giant to Amazon.
The big retailer said it would test the "last-mile" delivery with the...
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Toys“R”Us to open up to 50 stores in India in 3 years: Nitin Chhabra, Ace Turtle
The company plans to open 12 Toys“R”Us stores in 2024 and 100 in five years, as per Nitin Chhabra...
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