IndiaRetailBiz

On Friday, the 14th, we observed World Diabetes Day.
The main cause of diabetes, as every one knows, is obesity. Obesity, in fact, has now assumed epidemic proportions.
Casual Male– a fashion retail group– which specialises in retailing apparel and accessories for over-sized (read: big and tall) people, however, is delighted, because, Casual Male, and its […]

Chinese suppliers of Wal-Mart will now be required to incur 20 times the current cost of providing identification on their products being supplied by them to the world’s largest retailer.
The move comes in the wake of recent safety concerns surrounding products originating from China.
Wal-Mart has instructed its vendors in China to use RFID tagging instead of standard […]

American voters have an incentive to vote in the US Presidential poll this Tuesday!
“If you care enough to vote, we care enough to give you a free cup of coffee,” says Starbucks, world’s largest coffee chain, in a one-minute TV promotion. The advertisement, first of its kind for Starbucks, was  aired on NBC […]

Are changing times forcing Wal-Mart– the world’s largest retailer– to change its expansion strategy, or is it the Tesco’s success with its recently launched small sized supermarket stores chain in the US called ‘Fresh & Easy’ that has made most discount retailers to rethink about store-size strategy for their food and grocery stores in the […]

China– the world’s most populous and fastest growing economy– will continue to remain most attractive investment destination for packaged food products, notwithstanding the recent toxic food scare, particularly concerning dairy food products, that were found to have contained poisonous plastic chemical malamine.
According to a new report recently released by ”just-food,” China had the largest packaged food market (US$96.2bn in 2007) in value […]

Target stores, the fifth largest retailer by sales (US$63.367 billion) in the United States, behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Kroger, and Costco, known for its fast, fun and friendly outlook, has agreed to pay $1.745 million (Rs 8.5 crore) in penalties and fees in settlement of a suit filed against the retailer by by several […]

“Will I have enough to put on the table so my family can eat?” — Shopper’s concern.

Economic pain has begun to show.
In the US, where the impact of financial meltdown is most visible, shoppers have started to display disturbing changes in their buying habits, says a U S Today report.
Economic pain is […]

Could global economic turmoil achieve, what the dream team of economic administrators could not achieve for retail sector in India?
Yes, we are talking about allowing FDI in multi-brand retail!
The country has so far not allowed any FDI in multi-brand retail due to strident political opposition, particularly of the Left, to the entry of multinational […]

SPAR, claiming to be the world’s largest independent food retail chain, has unveiled its 20,000 sqft supermarket format store on Friday, October 17th 2008 in Hyderabad. SPAR also has a hypermarket store operating in Bangalore.
The supermarket offers a wide range of Grocery, Fruits & Vegetables, Bakery, Dairy & Take Away Foods, Meat, Poultry […]

After closing down its operations in South Korea and Germany, and downsizing operations in Japan, Wal-Mart — the world’s largest retailer– is finding the going to be tough in mainland China as well. Not only, the giant retailer has failed to make profits in its 12 years long existence in the world’s […]