Kirana Stores
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Indian Retailer Bureau Nov 10 2021 - 4 min readFrom times immemorial the next-door grocery has been your support system during times of distress when suddenly you wake up in the morning and find there is no sugar for your first cup of tea to sip along with your favorite newspaper. It was somewhere around the mid to late 1990s that large format retail stores ...
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Rishabh Sharma Jan 25 2021 - 4 min readPeople often underestimate the struggle of owning and operating a Kirana store, especially during the initial years. While these kirana stores are relatively easy to get into with fewer barriers to entry than most small businesses, the truth is there is a lot more to it than people may realize. While it ...
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Vaishnavi Gupta Jan 13 2021 - 1 min readReliance Retail is planning to rope in kirana stores as franchise partners for fulfilling orders placed on its e-commerce platform JioMart. The Mukesh Ambani-owned firm will be exiting from the direct sale of packaged food, grocery and FMCG products whereas the kirana stores will sell these products to consumers in their respective neighbourhoods. According to ...
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Franchise India Bureau Aug 07 2018 - 2 min readB2B startup, ShopX which facilitates retailers and kirana store owners in small towns with FMCG brands, has secured $35 million from Fung Strategic Holdings to fuel its expansion plans. According to the company, the funds will be used to strengthen ShopX’s products and engineering teams. The company also plans to strengthen its FMCG offerings and ...