Pre-packaged food set to become dearer by 5-8%The levies come at a time when commodity costs had been cooling down, which had led companies to state they would not increase prices furth...
Stocks in the news: Adani Green, RIL, GAIL, Karnataka Bank, Tata Elxsi and Dr Reddy's LabsReliance Retail will exit direct sale of packaged food, grocery and FMCG goods on its e-commerce platform JioMart.
Grocery retail aggregator Kirana King raises Rs 7 crore in a pre-series- A Round from RVCFKirana King started its retail aggregation operations in 2017 and has a grocery retail network of more than 200 stores in Jaipur, Rajasthan...
The kirana is a technology shop tooYour neighbourhood store is changing with canny store owners realising the benefits of going digital.
Top tech investor bets India corner shops can fight AmazonIndia has the market size and talent pool to make things happen and now investors are lining up with capital.
Kirana King targets 7,000 stores in five yearsThe company also has its own warehouse with distribution centres.
The tech-tonic shift that is helping retailers run business betterTechnology is not just creating a better user experience, it is helping retailers run business better.
Battleground kirana: The anatomy of India's raging retail warIndia’s ubiquitous kirana stores are in great demand as many companies vie for their loyalty and customers.
Global practices won't work, jugaad required in India: Sridhar Gundaiah, founder, StoreKingYou can’t replicate something which has worked globally, says Sridhar Gundaiah who founded StoreKing in 2012 to help people shop online thr...
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Demonetisation: How StoreKing is proving itself the Amazon of rural IndiaWith assisted commerce, a startup named StoreKing is mutating the rural credit model and helping villagers survive on a mix of cash and cre...
Ventures aiming to wire up millions of small retailers face a hard climb to profitsBurdened with a disorganised back end and resultant stock-outs, these kirana store owners are fighting where larger businesses are growing.
Mobile wallets like Paytm and Mobikwik are tying up with kirana stores in rural IndiaWith rewards-linked loyalty programmes, they are incentivising cash users in these areas to convert their money into wallet money at the ki...
MobiKwik, StoreKing tie-up for cashless payment in rural areasThe facility will be available in 600 small towns and 5,000 villages across the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu.
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Walmart decks up kirana stores for larger India pie"Around 70% of our customers are re-sellers and we work closely with them to help them modernize the kirana shop," says CEO with Walmart In...
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But many small shopkeepers are worried. Retail chains in the locality have dented business. Most of the customers now head to Carrefour.