BigBasket’s Move to Enter into Offline Retail to Widen its Customer Base in India
Tata Group-owned BigBasket, an online grocery platform recently forayed into offline retail to expand its retail footprint in India.  According to…
Why Traditional Trade Share in Grocery Retail is Expected to Fall by 20 pc in Next 5 Years
As India’s grocery retail market expands, the share of traditional trade will decline with modern trade formats and pure-play online sales capturing…
Prices of Daily Essentials & Grocery Products Rise by up to 40 pc in India
Prices of daily essentials and grocery products have risen by up to 40 percent in India, including edible oils, essentials, personal care, and home…
Reliance Retail Best Placed to Win Share in Fresh Food
Reliance Retail is best placed to win a share in fresh food, rapidly accelerate store rollout and target the widest assortment through multiple…
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Indian Consumers Prioritize Health and Safety over Discretionary Consumption
With the significant increase in the number of cases, the Indian consumer is seen to cautiously approach the future by prioritizing health safety,…
Setting up shop: empowering small retailers and kiranas
Small retailers and kiranasform the backbone of Indian consumption with a 98% share in the entire grocery retail business – there are about 12…
How Indian grocery business is becoming big?
The grocery business in India is distinctive in many ways, primarily due to the diversity of consumers and the unique distribution models of the…
The next phase of White Revolution is here
New Delhi: Lately the grocery segment and more precisely delivering milk at everyone’s doorstep as a business opportunity has been creating a lot…
Four ruling trends from the Internet industry
E-tailing: Increase in frequency of buying along with online shoppers across the categories will drive the industry growth The Indian e-commerce…
How e-tailing is booming in this festive season?
Driven by a very strong e-tailing festive sales in Sep’17, with USD 1.5 Bn of sales generated over 5 days, e-tailers are likely to see 45% y-o-y…
Big Insight, not Big data-rise of the Insight driven business!
Companies don’t decide how customer centric they are, they cannot rate themselves on this. In today’s age of the customer, it’s your wife or my…
How hyperlocal startups are fledging with a ?Go-Local' approach?
Indian retail landscape has undergone a massive disruption over the course of past 5 years. It all started in 2013 with the rise of eCommerce which…
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The good and the bad of online grocery
Let’s straight away come to the point: a. Margins are low. Generally in between 0 to 15%. Its like selling medicines. Even medicines have a retail…
Peppertap to shut grocery operations to focus on its logistics business
On-demand hyperlocal delivery app PepperTap has recently confirmed the rumors of shutting operations. The company will shut its grocery delivery…
Metro Cash & Carry to open its first wholesale centre in Surat
Germany-based self service wholesaler Metro Cash & Carry has recently announced the opening of its new wholesale distribution centre in Surat,…
Going Hybrid: The Future of Grocery in India
Groceries are the basic need of life. You can eliminate movies from your weekend entertainment routine and stop dining out, but you can’t survive…
Snapdeal to delivery FMCG products in 4 hours
One of country’s leading online marketplaces Snapdeal has now planned to tap the ever hot FMCG market of the country. The company, in order to boost…
Breaking the Mould of Virtual Grocery Buying
The sale of groceries witnesses no halt, irrespective of a country's state of economy. However, caught in the city's fast pace, tedious commuting and…
3 factors to keep in mind before opening a dark store
Today, e-commerce is all about instant gratification and consumer’s expectation has moved way beyond the normal. This has put immense pressure on e-…
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Flipkart to shut its grocery delivery app ?Nearby'
One of India's largest e-commerce firms Flipkart will shut its groceries delivery app ‘Nearby’ in less than five months after the company started…
Walmart's expansion plans: to sign 3 MoUs with Telangana govt
In order to strengthen its foothold in the state, American retail conglomerate Walmart is in talks with Telangana government to sign 3 pacts to open…
Hyperlocal faces the heat with PepperTap shutting operations in 10 cities
As the hyperlocal business models continue to grapple with challenges in the country, yet another player in the space has started facing the heat.…
HyperCITY opens its second store in Janakpuri, Delhi
One of India’s hypermarket retail chains, HyperCITY Retail (India) Ltd. has announced the launch of its second store at Janakpuri, Delhi NCR. The…
Grofers winds up operations in 9 cities
Hyperlocal grocery startup Grofers has finally decided to shut down its operations in nine cities of the country. The company will no longer serve in…
Spencer's Retail acquires online grocery startup MeraGrocer
Kolkata-based chain of retail stores, Spencer’s Retail has recently acquired 100 percent stake in online grocery startup, meragrocer.com. The size of…
BigBasket plans to use electric cars for delivery in NCR
Beating the odds, online grocery retailer BigBasket has come up with a new concept of delivering products in Delhi NCR using electric cars. Currently…
Godrej Nature's Basket on expansion mode, adds 3 more stores
Running high on its expansion spree, Gourmet foods retailer Godrej Nature’s Basket has recently announced the launch of 3 more stores to its bouquet…
Aggressive omni-channel strategy by Metro Cash & Carry
German retail giant, Metro Cash and Carry India Pvt. Ltd., is all set to open its store in Delhi on 15 October, taking the total number of the…
Jugnoo to expand footprints with launch in Gurgaon
Hyperlocal market player, Jugnoo, is all set to expand its footprint in the National Capital Region, commencing its operations in Gurgaon. Launched…
On-demand grocery delivery startup Grofers move base to Singapore
At the time when entire country is talking about Make In India and Digital India, yet another start-up firm has decided to ditch its birthplace and…
Grocery retailer BigBasket likely to raise Rs 100 crore: Report
Online grocery retailer BigBasket is close to finalise a fresh round of financing which is likely to lap up m$15-16 million (around Rs 100 crore)…
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Designed by King Retail Solutions, Fresh St. Farms Store in Surrey, Canada, is a unique amalgamation of authentic decor and traditional design. The…
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