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Kirana Stores Vs Organized Retail

Tags : Kirana, Shop, Retail Store, Retail India, Retail Chains, Retail Industry, Retail Market, Retailing, Retail
Industry : Retail Chain/Logistics, FMCG/Foods/Beverage
Functional Area : Consumer Sales, Logistics & Supply Chain
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Small stores, also called kirana stores, will continue to grow alongside organized retail, but at a slower rate, and it might be a decade before such store owners lose business to the big retailers, providing an ample window for India to help make the smaller players part of the transition in retailing, But in the recent times it is said that kirana stores are joining together to combat the organized retail stores, so this will be going on all the time like who is better, but right now the kirana stores are happy at the moment with crisis going on people are coming back to kirana stores, so What do you think on this issue, Do share your views on this.

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Well from the very begining i want to tell that I have no numbers to substantiate what I believe. i.e. Kiranas will live - not rule. Here’s why. I’ll limit myself to one case-study to further what I’m saying (which I also know from personal experience), i.e. Food Bazaar (part of Kishore Biyani’s retail chain, and part of what you’ve referred to above as “Big Bazaar”) near forum Mall, bangalore. Here’s what I’ve seen at this Food Bazaar 1. Huge variety - within each group, across brands, vegetables, fruits, plastic stuff, etc. etc. 2. Crowds - it’s a big place (not sure of the area, but its large) and fairly packed on weekends (as you pointed to above) with people of the variety mentioned ab...
sudhakar singh  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
Kirana stores in tier-II & tier-III cities will continue to do the steady business as usual.as i observed this while being at places like gajraula, chandpur and ghaziabad that still people would go to kirana because it can give you with the ration...
Mallikarjuna Gupta Bhogavalli  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
This format of retail will be applicable only in locations where the disposable incomes are high, In villages and small towns still the kiranas have to exist. Yes it is true to some extent they are effected.
 
 
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In India, where people never ever thought of going to a AC room for there vegetable buying are not going in for stores like Reliance Fresh, Spencers etc. So what effect will it have on the locals, who...
Jaygopal Raghavan  |  Answered  |  4 years ago
Both Gaurav and Ajay have got it right equally. Kirana stores will indeed stay for the very simple reason as stated above - personalised service. If i may add further to it - A kirana store owner may even go out of the way to source some rare...
Gangadhar GangaSagar  |  Answered  |  4 years ago
I beg to differ partly. Mall stores offer deep discount, greater variety and independence of making choices, which smart buyers are quick to grasp. On the other side of the spectrum"kirana" stores have higher prices and do severly restrict...
 
 
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santosh kumar  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  2 years ago
Emergence of organised retail has caused kiranas to evolve with time. They now understand the importance of providing service cost competitiveness. It is surprising to note that inspite of big retails chains having the advantage of economies of...
veena srinath  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  2 years ago
Not unless they get more organized and marketing savvy. The rural and urban lower economic strata will definitely prefer Kiranas because they stock the smaller brands and smaller pack sizes and certain items are available only with them in loose...
Shailena Varma  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  2 years ago
Rajgopal I agree with you the kiranas are still in the business. As you said most of the Indians are not used to mall culture. The mall culture has hit only certain cities and majority of other parts of India depend only on kiranas. So we cannot...
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Makrand Bhave  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  3 years ago
My feeling is that the kiranas are always going to be around. At most they would shed there inhibitions and make a facade change to attract the customer, but they will remain. With the introduction of plastic, only the buying patterns have...
Mihir Jhaveri, PMP, CSCM  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  3 years ago
Guys It is really good to see so many different good views coming out.  But the bottom line is India has large population and huge consumer based which has all types of people with different purchasing capacity. And the number is huge. So even if...
Zahid Hussain Kaliyadan  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  3 years ago
Though a lot of hard work is being put in by companies like ITC and Godrej in introducing "Retail Sales" to Rural India, the concept is still alien to millions across our country. Most of us city-bred clan do not realize that over 2/3rd of India...
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2 Being a street smart salesman in identifying our customer and not letting him go away from us by maintaning relationship
Bhanu  |  Supported idea  "Being a street smart salesman in identifying our customer and not letting him go away from us by maintaning relationship"  |  2 years ago
While your thoughts are pointing to an existing gap in the offerings of the modern format outlets, still at a practical level it's difficult to change much. The difference is that while the shopkeeper is the owner in the case of Kirana stores and...
Kiran Kumar Koti  |  Added idea  "By Extending Credit Facility"  |  2 years ago
Most of the Kirana stores, generally offer credit to their customers. i think this is some thing that our organised retailer need to seriuosly look into to gain some loyal customers. But care should be taken before giving this credit facility,...
 
 
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Kiran Kumar Koti  |  Added idea  "Form Cooperative socities"  |  2 years ago
When you are weak and small and you have to compete a strong opponent, teaming up with fellows with similar problems. I mean to say, If few or more small retailers team up and form a co-opertive society that can take up activites like...
 
 
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