Experts are constantly warning that countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom may face a recession amid the global recession. Meanwhile, the Indian rupee continued to depreciate due to the slowdown in...
The Economics of Online Markets [1] continues to puzzle the Competition Commission of India ( CCI ) even after releasing their market study findings [2] of the E-commerce sector in India on January 8, 2020....
Amazon just gave us an update on how rapidly its own delivery system is replacing UPS, the US Postal Service, FedEx, and other carriers in delivering packages from an Amazon fulfillment center to the door...
A slower transition to online shopping means Germany hasn’t yet seen the same huge number of store closures as the US and UK. Some top retailers, however, are now feeling the pinch amid a slowing...
British supermarket giant Tesco has unveiled the first of its new Jack’s discount food stores, saying they would be the cheapest in town. The stores are intended to stop the advance of German-owned Lidl and...
One of the big forces in the brick-and-mortar retail meltdown are private equity firms that acquired retail chains via leveraged buyouts during the LBO boom before the Financial Crisis or more recently. Numerous of those...
According to METI, retail sales rose by 3.2% year on year(YoY) in April 2017. The growth rate is the highest since April 2015. A breakdown of retail sales shows that a broad range of sub-sectors...
Entering an evolving market is akin to stepping into a minefield. How does one exploit such a market with enormous potential, but where the risk of policy quagmire is also equally probable? One way is to...
About 8% of the grocery market in India are organized. This market is currently dominated by the hypermarket, supermarkets and convenience markets like FoodBazzar, Hypercity, and Dmart etc (KPMG, 2014). With a large customer base...
The moves of financial markets in the 2008 downturn taught a valuable lesson to common people the so called “retail investors”, to have a diversified portfolio i.e. not to put all your eggs in one...
I got 4-5 calls from journalists and reporters wanting my feedback on the Flipkart funding news yesterday. I am biased, and I like the folks in the company a lot. That said the main questions...
Firstly, foreign retailers should be judicious in selecting the markets that they want to build their base in and operate out of. India is a huge country with large disparities in prosperity, governance standards and...
