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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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- Resurfacing a July 2021 move: Zomato IPO subscribed 1.05x on first day, with retail investors leading demand
- IIMR patents automated millet roti machine targeting ₹40,000 price point
- India’s eased Chinese-stake FDI rules draw 29 proposals worth Rs 4,895.65 crore
- MINISO joins Swiggy Instamart with 90+ non-grocery SKUs
- Bengaluru airport to cut departure UDFs, add arrival fee from September 2026
- Meesho targets India’s unorganised retail through reseller-led social commerce
- Walmart flags 100-bps-plus Q3 sales-growth hit from Flipkart event timing shift