Companies make over 25 kg packs to avoid 5% GSTThe CBIC on Sunday clarified that pre-packaged food items weighing more than 25 kg in a single packet would be exempted from GST. The 5% le...
20 Jul, 2022, 12.43 AM IST
Flipkart strengthens kirana delivery programme ahead of festive seasonThe Kirana delivery programme accounts for nearly one-third of Flipkart's deliveries made in a month. In the past year, its Kirana partners...
08 Sep, 2021, 06.30 PM IST
Modernisation of 10% kiranas can generate 3.2 million jobs: Report“The rapid changes in consumer behavior and acceleration of online commerce, mandate that the Indian retail ecosystem transform to meet eme...
28 Jan, 2021, 04.40 PM IST
Over 7 lakh small stores may have shut shop due to lockdownIndia has about 10-12 million small retail outlets selling grocery and other FMCG products.
30 May, 2020, 08.41 AM IST
Kiranas in crisis, disruption tough to reverse, fears FMCGIndustry executives said small outlets are also feeling the pinch because distributors are dealing in cash and not offering 7-21 days of cr...
30 May, 2020, 07.34 AM IST
Kiranas become a lifeline for urban consumers in times of lockdownThe countrywide lockdown has helped neighbourhood grocery stores to make a comeback in metro cities.
02 Apr, 2020, 06.28 AM IST
Kirana King targets 7,000 stores in five yearsThe company also has its own warehouse with distribution centres.
27 Sep, 2019, 05.46 PM IST
Large retailers wooing kirana stores with PoS machines 2.0Reliance Retail has been testing a PoS project with 1,200 mom-and-pop outlets for the past couple of month.
30 May, 2019, 04.52 PM IST
Why retailers like Amazon, Reliance Retail are wooing kirana storesAmazon wants kirana stores to serve as delivery points for products bought on its site. It has also listed a few kiranas as sellers on its ...
09 Sep, 2015, 01.29 PM IST
Here's how local Kirana stores are reinventing themselves to trump e-grocersDigital balances, computers with inventory management software, and CCTV's for monitoring purposes are a few ways in which kiranas have cha...
09 Jul, 2015, 10.18 AM IST
Retailers like Future Group, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, Reliance adopting kirana-store model to push salesDomestic supermarket chains are changing tack to beat the mom-and-pop stores at their own game.
20 May, 2013, 10.03 AM IST
- FDI in retail: Wal-Mart, Carrefour flexible; kiranas dropped from supply chain
The government dropped a key clause to protect the interest of small kirana shops in its policy for allowing FDI in multi-brand retail.
06 Dec, 2011, 10.02 AM IST
- Pan masala in paper, aluminium foil sachets
Gutkha and pan masala packaging units have found an alternative in paper and aluminium foil pouches.
11 Mar, 2011, 04.21 PM IST
- Protest against closure of gutka packaging units
On alternative ways of packing gutka, he said their are provisions of packaging gutka in paper and aluminium foils but it will increase the...
05 Mar, 2011, 06.36 PM IST
- Modern retailers more responsive in cutting prices than kiranas
Modern retailers more responsive in cutting or holding prices than kiranas, says Nielsen study.
19 Jul, 2010, 12.37 AM IST
- Retail biggies force to focus on destination malls
Retail biggies have begun the first round of corrections in their retail strategies, after taking a beating from mom-and-pop stores. Career...
03 Sep, 2008, 06.25 AM IST
- Mom-&-pop keeping Big Retail on toes
Modern retail is all about survival of the fittest. And who knows it better than our kiranas, who have worked out their own marketing strat...
05 May, 2007, 01.52 AM IST