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Some months ago I got excited about this japanese Retailer UNIQLO who do things pretty differently including a Robot shop assistant called Wakamuru and some of the whackiest, zanniest ideas in Retailing.
Well, those guys are back in the news again. UNIQLO now have a tie up with China’s largest online shopping portal taobao.com who reportedly [...]
Love the pic ! Describes beautifully the utopia ( and paradox) of luxury retail for most of India.
Source : The International Herald Tribune
I read in the TOI that some chaps just rented out a 133 sq. ft. shop near Safdarjung Road, New Delhi for an astounding Rs 12,09,000 per month. That is a rental of Rs 9,022 per sq ft per month.
This patch of bricks would have costed Rs 10,15,000 in the Fifth Avenue, New York, [...]
Found this while backing up some old pictures on my laptop! I spotted ‘Gandhi Ji’ a couple of years ago on the fancy Rue La Fayette in Paris.
Imagine a Gandhi Ji’s tandoori chicken happening on an Indian highstreet. God (all of them) forbid !!!
I met a couple of students from a prominent B school yesterday. Graduating in Retail, they had come to discuss placements for the current batch. They asked me the average salary I think freshers could get ( at my small company and the likes) . I thought of an honest number and padded it by [...]
One-stop multi solution hubs catering to ALL automobile related needs ! Brought to you by the ‘Maruti man’ Jagdish Khattar. Just what the doctor ordered.
Cut back to almost 2 decades ago when it used to be another world. I was a champ then and my driving made a tough nut out of me. My first car [...]
I love the nimbu-mirchi – the most important ( and creative) element of Visual Merchandising in traditional Indian retail to ward off the evil eye ! Though of course you’ll also see it outside the poshest stores selling ‘firang’ labels.
If you’ve got a franchisee with a fertile Indian mind, you’d better develop the zen for green [...]
I love Barney’s Communication! Not Barney, the purple dinosaur but Barneys New York, the luxe retail brand. I love the Barney’s website, the mailers, the catalogue and those clothes. It’s a pity I don’t have the rich-punjabi-husband!
I was reminded of Barneys while reading in the ET the other day about Aditya Birla Nuvo’s plans to [...]
Was there life before the gas lighters ? It took me about 60 seconds to clear the fog over the last few decades of my life, even though I think I am still of relevant age ! The neighbourhood ‘Kiranedar’ would deliver the monthly ration in a neatly packed cardboard carton, brought up to our first storey [...]
A bit late in the day but Tesco has finally said ‘I do” to the Tata’s after wooing suitors like Bharti, the Wadias, DLF and Parsvnath among others. Though it seems that in this case, Tesco seems to be having the cake and eating it too !
On one hand they have decided to enter the [...]
