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Flea market revisited

vivin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:46:33 +0000

From the outside what looks like a crammed neighborhood, opens up to a huge field with a fete-like commotion. Once known as Mumbai’s Shor bazaar, later rechristened to Chor bazaar(a.k.a. Jumma bazaar as referred to by natives), comes alive in the wee hours of Friday.

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Mobile Handset Market in India: Current Scenario & Future Prospects

guestauthor — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:21:54 +0000

The Indian mobile handset arena, at present, appears fully packed with numerous options to look at, with models varying from the cheapest across the world, the Vodafone 150 (VF 150) sold for INR 799 (USD 18) featuring only the basic attributes of a cell phone, to the likes of iPhone that feature some of [...]

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Should India lift FDI in Retail as Obama pushed?

rajeev — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:26:59 +0000

The Indian retail industry has been hailed as sunrise sectors of the economy. India has been recognized as leading Retail destination and whole world is eying on it. Retailers globally are effected by stagnation in consumer demand in their home countries, and so double digit growth in consumer demand in India looks like hot cake [...]

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What’s in a Logo? It speaks more than thousand words about company…

Prateek — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:29:49 +0000

Its about your image, its about your brand, its about your fans and its about your positioning. A Logo of a company depicts lot about it. It is a face of a company which talks to its customer and consumer feels attach to it and to its owner company. And company spends lots of million [...]

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GRDI 2010: What India makes of it

sudip — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:02:53 +0000

The annual AT Kearny GRDI report ranks the 30 top retail destinations across the globe based on its growth, risks and markets. The ones mentioned are a few of several other parameters. India slips to third spot after emerging as a leader last year. Shuttling back to the top spot is China going all out [...]

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Cost of lost data in Retail

rajeev — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:31:20 +0000

Modern Retailers are totally IT dependent. No doubt that IT has helped Retailers to control their operations efficiently and reduce cost but it has few drawbacks too. Retailers become helpless when their IT system fails no matter whether it is a virus attack, software bug or a hardware breakdown. In spite of precaution and preventive [...]

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Malls Find ‘New Ways’ Of Revenue Generation

Sarthak — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:54:35 +0000

With the domestic retail market witnessing a gradual revival, mall owners are implementing various schemes in order to expand the sources of revenue generation. As store vacancies in malls started to swell during 2008–09 in a psychological recession plagued India, developers tried to hold their bleeding noses, trying to look out for additional sources of [...]

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New Shopping Avenue for Indians

Prateek — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:59:55 +0000

Social media tools like Orkut, Facebook, Twitter, Buzz etc. introduced a fun element in teaching. Don’t be surprised I am not going to talk about education in India. Actually these tools helped India to raise its computer literacy rate from single digit to double digit, which is one of the important factor to promote etailing [...]

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Shoplifters’ No. 1!

rajeev — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:59:24 +0000

No, my post is not about any upcoming movie of David Dhavan on his no. 1 sequel. But it is about we Indians who are consistently topping the survey called ‘Global Retail Theft Barometer’. It’s an annual survey which was conducted third time in 2009 covering 1,069 large retailers spread across 41 countries in globe. [...]

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The Fading Picture of Indian Malls

Sarthak — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:01:37 +0000

With only a dozen of malls surviving out of more than 200, I think the picture of Indian malls is fading gradually. This is the scenario of the Indian Malls at present and I presume it will be enough for the readers to envisage what I am going to mention. It has been almost one decade [...]

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