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| Retailer |
Formats |
Product Categories |
| Wal-Mart |
Discount, Hypermarkets, Warehouse Clubs, Neighbourhood Stores, Convenience Stores |
Food & Grocery, Furniture & Furnishings, Auto Services, General Merchandise, Electricals, Financial Services, Appliances, etc. |
| Tesco |
Supermarkets, Hypermarkets, Neighbourhood Stores, Convenience Stores, Internet, Catalogue |
Food & Grocery, General Merchandise, Clothing, Home Products, Fuel, Automobile, etc. |
| Carrefour |
Hypermarkets, Convenience Stores, Supermarkets |
Food & Grocery, Clothing, General Merchandise, etc. |
In line with the global evolution, Indian Retailing has also witnessed a series of experiments across the country with new format being tested out; old ones tweaked around or just discarded. Some of these are listed in the table below: -
| Retailer |
Old Format |
New Format Experimented With |
| Shoppers' Stop |
Department Store |
Quasi-mall |
| Ebony |
Department Store |
Quasi-mall, smaller outlets, adding food retail |
| Crossword |
Large Bookstore |
Corner shops |
| Piramyd |
Department Store |
Quasi-mall, food retail |
| Pantaloon |
Own Brand Store |
Hypermarket |
| Subhiksha |
Supermarket |
Considering moving to self service |
| Vitan |
Supermarket |
Suburban discount store |
| Foodworld |
Food Supermarket |
Hypermarket, Foodworld express |
| Globus |
Department Store |
Small fashion stores |
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* Contributed by -
Harmesh Mehrotra & Manu Arora,
MBA (IB) 2004-2006,
School of International Business,
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.
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