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What format bets are Indian retailers making right now?
Three moves dominate. Reliance is doubling down on small-format grocery with 2,500+ Smart Bazaar stores planned by FY27 — the unit economics argument is that ₹3,000/sqft revenue density beats hypermarkets at ₹1,800. DMart is testing a premium format in Powai with 2× the SKU count. And Avenue Supermarts quietly filed for warehouse-club (Costco-style) membership retail in its latest RoC filing. Meanwhile Tata-owned BigBasket is pivoting brick-and-mortar with 200 "BB Now" dark stores converted to walk-in micro-markets.
The first time someone on the desk pinged a competitor's format pilot before it hit the trade press, we stopped opening Mint at 7am. Strategy director · top-five Indian retailer
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- Century Plyboards gets Buy call as demand, distribution and capacity expansion support outlook
- India CV retail sales rise 24% to 99,666 units as rural and infrastructure demand accelerates
- Government to shortlist candidates for BSNL CMD as network rollout accelerates
- India competition policy needs an omnichannel lens, opinion argues
- DFS sets youth-focused digital banking roadmap for public sector banks
- RBI says cash demand is still rising despite India’s digital-payments boom
- Crompton targets ₹15,000 crore revenue by FY31 through premiumisation and new categories
- Sakarni Plaster plans ₹450 crore expansion, two new building-material plants