Future of FDI in Retail

A Platform to discucc the reatil revolution at length, with the FDI as a back drop.

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Topic of the week : Security Matters: Shoplifting, Thefts, employee ethics Go to Topic

The topic'Security Matters' will cover a holistic approach to security...

How to prevent Retail thefts?

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Periodic high value count, Stock audit check point devices etc are efficient sytems etc developed based on identifying tags (Hard/Soft tags etc). But as the shoppers to are becoming professional shoplifters with ageing times more needs to be done...

India No.1 in Retail theft

A survey of retail crime and loss in the world says India has the highest retail shrinkage at 3.2% in the world. Retail shrinkage is the loss of products due to shoplifting, employee theft, paperwork errors and supplier fraud. The country’s retailers complain that the main causes for the US $2.6 billion loss are shoplifting and employee theft. The survey, the third annual Global Retail Theft Barometer 2009, covered 1,069 large retailers across 41 countries between July 2008 and June 2009. India

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What are roles & function of CAPEX in profile of SCM person ?

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	Referred by Shailena Varma, Logistics Manager, Target \| 3 years ago

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India can have over 300 new hypermalls by 2011- Will it help India ?

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	Answered by Sudhansu Jena, Logistics Manager, Target \| Topic: Dynamics of Retail Sector in India \| 3 years ago
	Why not. Hypermalls are increasing in big cities of India nowadays which shows its popularity. With the rising demand for them and growing numbers, it seems that we can have 300+ hypermalls by 2011

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Are there low cost franchise opportunities in India?

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	Referred by Akhilesh Majumdar, Logistics Manager, Tesco \| Topic: Franchise And Retail Opportunities in India \| 3 years ago
	Dear friends in India the economic slowdown has hit the retail industry hard and players are increasingly turning to franchising . Is there low cost franchise opportunities in India? Share some of them.

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Does franchising lowers the risk of failure?

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	Referred by Ajit Khan, Sales/BD Manager, Future Group \| Topic: Franchise And Retail Opportunities in India \| 3 years ago
	Does franchising lowers the risk of failure?

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Why retail sector is developing rapidly in India?

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	Referred by SB DIKSHIT, STATE QUALITY MONITOR, U.P.R.R.D.A \| Topic: Effects of Foreign Players on Indian Retail Industry \| 3 years ago
	Why retail sector is developing rapidly in India?

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What will be the impact of Cash and Carry stores on Retail industry?

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	Answered by Viktor Stephen, COO, Business Mashup/Partner Get.Next.Job \| Topic: Effects of Foreign Players on Indian Retail Industry \| 3 years ago
	Bharti-wall-mart cash n carry stores operate in the B2B space, not the B2C space. So, it will probably not have much impact on the end user, i.e., the households. Totally different retail format. It would be interesting to see how the different retail...

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Why doesn't India allow FDI in multi brands?

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	Referred by Shailena Varma, Logistics Manager, Target \| 4 years ago
	India does not allow FDI in multi-brand retail but permits up to 51 per cent in single brand retail and 100 per cent in cash-and-carry wholesale trading. Though there is a ban on FDI in big multi-brand retail stores, there is no restriction on...

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Do the retail stores need a change in their store formats? Will this improve their efficiency?

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	Answered by Bhominder Kaur Pabla Parti, Training Manager, Reliance Hypermart Ltd \| Topic: Dynamics of Retail Sector in India \| 4 years ago
	Definitely. In most big retailers, they have a team preparing planograms, however,in some cases the team is located in the central office. They have not been to the actual store sites and are unaware that the shelve sizes are sometimes not as per...

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What impact will online retailing have on the RETAIL industry?

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	Referred by Shailena Varma, Logistics Manager, Target \| Topic: Dynamics of Retail Sector in India \| 4 years ago
	What impact will online retailing have on the RETAIL industry?

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Why Multiple Supply Chain Networks in the Retail and how does it help?

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	Referred by Shailena Varma, Logistics Manager, Target \| Topic: Supply Chain Management: Opportunities & Challenges \| 4 years ago
	Why Multiple Supply Chain Networks in the Retail and how does it help?

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Topics in Future of FDI in Retail

Role and impact of Loyalty Management Go to Topic

loyalty cards are used for getting customer insight or they are just used as discount tool?

Retailers don't map their customers buying habits

Retailers are mapping and engaging their customers

How To Improve Employee Loyalty ?

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Here are just a few ideas to get your brain going: • Develop an employee emergency fund that will be used to help employees and their families in times of need. Unforeseen circumstances happen, such as a house fire, robbery, or severe illness....

Multi Brand Retail vs. Single Brand Retail Go to Topic

What will happen if 100% FDI in Multi-brand retail is allowed??


	7 It will create more jobs & a strong infrastructure
	1 100% FDI will keep the economic pace of development.
	0 Is the government able to risk losing a vote bank

What to look for when deciding a location for your retail store ?


	5 Product based Location
	3 Inteincive Research,Customer Profile,Rentals,Connectivity.
	3 how do people come

economic feasibility/ROI analysis of RFID Go to Topic

RFID Brings Order to a Chaotic Office

The Offices of Sponsored Research Services and Sponsored Research Accounting Services at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee administers more than $182 million in research grants for some 1,200 projects each year. On any given day, there are roughly 3,500 project files in the office, to which more than 40 employees have routine access. Until recently, the system for keeping track of all these files was inefficient, with employees often spending hours apiece searching for missing files

is there a cheaper alternative to RFID being used in retail stores?

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while RFID is fast and ubiquitous it faces problem in the names of price and complex preparatory work. you can look into other altenatives like, RuBee which is being hailed as a cheaper alternative to RFID. Also are solutions like, VendorNet's...

Dynamics of Retail Marketing Go to Topic

What impact will online retailing have on the RETAIL industry?

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Hi Shailena This is really a stratgic question now being talked in the board room. Is India ready? Again if see the retail industry caters to different category of product. Each category may fall or may not fall into online retailing. Online...

Tough road ahead for Organized retail in india.

Organized retail

Un-organized retail

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) made in Indian Retail Industry Go to Topic

THE F.D.I INDIAN RETAIL SCENARIO

DEMOLITION OF OUR SMALL SCALE SECTOR

MILLIONS OF VACANCIES/STRONG RUPEE/100% F.D.I

FDI In Retal Sector

Industry trends for retail sector indicate that organized retailing has major impact in controlling inflation because large organized retailers are able to buy directly from producers at most competitive prices. World Bank attributes the opening of the retail sector to FDI to be beneficial for India in terms of price and availability of products as it would give a boost to food products, textiles and garments, leather products, etc., to benefit from large-scale procurement by international chai

Should there be cap on foreign direct investment in retail? Go to Topic

Factors influencing Foreign Direct Investment

Supply and Demand Factors

Government Factors

FDI In Retal Sector

Kirana Stores Vs Organized Retail Go to Topic

Do you think the change in consumer behaviour in Indian Retail has begun from kiranas to retail stores?

Yes

How do you think unorgansied sector can compete the Organsied Retailing and Survive.


	0 Form Cooperative socities

Real Estate value chain Go to Topic

Benefits of investment in real estate


	2 Real time asset
	1 Money Laundering
	1 Between stocks and real estate

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Yes

Investing in Healthcare Go to Topic

IT investment scales up in health care

Here is an abstract of the interview with Vishal Bali, CEO, Wockhardt Hospitals. Health care industry are strapping their belts up to scale their IT investments to leverage maximum from the power of IT. India is the fastest growing health care IT market in Asia with an expected growth rate of 22%. HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY The health care industry of India has seen drastic changes in the past decade mainly due to the privatization of hospitals. There has been a great improvement in terms of infr

are doctors paid enough for the hard work they do and resposibility and risk they take for saving ones life compared to other

no they are not paid enough

ya they are paid enough