Archive for ‘June, 2011’

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Jun14

Learning from the Failures of Amazon Cloud

by admin on June 14th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Posted In: News & Articles, Online Shopping, Retail Formats

Every cloud expert will acknowledge that the mantra for successful architecture in the cloud is ‘Design for Failure’….The failure in a particular zone will redirect the traffic to a different zone that is stable.

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Jun14

Meet Groupon’s Indian rival Snapdeal

by admin on June 14th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Discount Stores, Food Court, Luxury Stores, Marketing, News & Articles, Online Shopping, Restaurant, Retail Formats, Retail Management, Retail Verticals

Snapdeal.com — now popularly called India’s answer to Groupon, the world’s biggest provider of daily online deals……With 400 staff on the payroll, company want to get a share of India’s $500 billion retail market, of which nearly 18% is services business offered by sites like Snapdeal.

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Jun14

Merchandising and Shelf Management to latch shoppers

by admin on June 14th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Posted In: Category Management, Convenience Store, Marketing, Retail Formats, Retail Management, Shelf Management, Store Layout

There are 7 billion people on the planet, and all of us sort and class information the same way. It is a very efficient way of processing millions of data points in a short period of time.

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Jun15

Price Chopper Leverages e-Sourcing to Save Time and Cut Costs

by admin on June 15th, 2011 at 7:40 am
Posted In: Internet / Mobile, Retail Management, Retail Technology, Supply Chain Mgt

Regional independent Price Chopper Supermarkets has extended its agreement with its full-service e-procurement provider to expand the reach of e-sourcing throughout its organization.

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Jun15

Exxonmobil secures 7-Eleven fuels supply contract

by admin on June 15th, 2011 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Petrol-pumps, Retail Verticals

Mobil has secured the contract to supply all of 7-Eleven’s petrol and diesel fuel requirements from January 1, 2012. This augments Mobil’s existing agreement to supply fuel to the sites 7-Eleven acquired from Mobil in October last year Mobil’s success with this tender demonstrates that it continues to be a vigorous competitor in the Australian wholesale fuel market.

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Jun15

Coca-Cola uses solar cooler to push rural sales

by admin on June 15th, 2011 at 7:58 am
Posted In: Beverages, News & Articles, Retail Verticals

‘eKOCool’, a chest cooler, developed internally by the Indian arm of the Atlanta based multinational, operates exclusively through solar energy, with no other electricity source required to operate it. It has a capacity to store two crates, which contains 48 glass bottles of 300ml each. That’s not all. It can even charge your mobile phone and light up your home.

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Jun16

Future Group to build wholesale markets

by admin on June 16th, 2011 at 4:41 am
Posted In: Chain Stores, Food Court, Franchise, Leisure & Lifestyle, Mall Management, Real Estate, Retail Formats, Retail Management, Shop-in-Shop, Supermarket/Hypermarket, Supply Chain Mgt

Kishore Biyani had merged his real-estate business with Kolkata-based developer Sumit Dabriwala into Agre Developers to strengthen the retail major’s foothold in the realty space. The retail to financial services group runs stores like Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar.

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Jun16

It’s No Longer Kirana Versus Modern Retail

by admin on June 16th, 2011 at 4:56 am
Posted In: Convenience Store, Kirana, Leisure & Lifestyle, Luxury Stores, Modern Retail, News & Articles, Retail Formats, Retail Verticals, Supermarket/Hypermarket

Organised retail accounts for less than 10% of India’s retail market estimated at close to $400 million. The Boston Consulting Group estimates the size of organised retail market at $28 billion and expects it to grow nine times to $260 billion in 10 years.

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Jun21

Stores Demand Mannequins With Personality

by admin on June 21st, 2011 at 5:26 am
Posted In: Chain Stores, Modern Retail, News & Articles, Retail Formats, Retail Management, Window Dressing

With retailers fighting for customers in the sluggish economic recovery, the generic white, hairless, skinny mannequin is being pushed aside by provocative alternatives that entice shoppers with muscles, unusual poses, famous faces and lifelike bodies.

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Jun21

Bringing Innovation to Your Business Model for Success

by admin on June 21st, 2011 at 5:34 am
Posted In: CRM, News & Articles, Retail Management, Supply Chain Mgt

The challenge with business-model innovation lies in identifying where and how to make changes. Too often companies focus on improving revenues, costs and resource utilization, but completely ignore the risks associated with the business.

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