MODERN WHOLESALING COMES TO INDIA, BUT IT WILL BE A TOUGH CHALLENGE ESTABLISHING WIDESPREAD NETWORKS
March 1st, 2012
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI
BOOKER, Carrefour, Metro and Walmart are trying to persuade millions of small grocery stores in India - known as Kirana shops - to joint their organised wholesale networks, rather than continuing to source from traditional unorganised and fragmented merchandise supply chains.
"The 'cash and carry' model will support the independent retailers who are under threat from the modern trade retailers and possibly from foreign retail giants with their supermarket and hypermarket concepts", said Zunaid Bangee, managing ...
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