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India trysts with Modern Retail

Ambience Mall, Gurgaon Image Courtesy: http://www.henshall.com/  Modern Retail is one sector that has boomed in India in past few years. It has moved way forward from its turbulent beginnings with protests against Reliance Fresh outlets by local grocery sellers. Today, everything conceivable that we purchase for our daily use is available in some form of organized retail format. Be it food & grocery, clothing and garments, jewellery, furniture, crockery, electronics…you name it – it is there. However, what has always interested me is in observing small little things and ways in which we as Indians like to shop. We have moved from mom and pop stores and the bazaars of yore (not really yore I guess) to the new age and happening way to shop per say, but at the end of the day, that was the way we used to shop and this new way is imported. Recently, a report named The Great Indian Bazaar published by McKinsey satiated my desire to know how we shop as consumers in these new f...