Organised Retail

Contractual labour on rise in 9 major non-farm sectors, shows govt data

The results for the fifth and sixth rounds of the QES - pertaining to Q1 and Q2 of FY23 were released after a gap of nearly 20 months

Retailers planning to roll-back discounts offered during Covid-19 pandemic

It is important to note that retailers across the board started offering steep discounts and also ran sudden flash sales in their stores to liquidate stocks during the Covid years

ONDC to support small retailers against large tech-based e-com firms: Goyal

The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a unified payments interface-type protocol, will help small retailers survive the onslaught of large tech-based e-commerce companies, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. ONDC is an initiative of the ministry to help small retailers expand their business and reduce the dominance of e-commerce giants. It aims to build an open, interoperable network on which buyers and sellers can transact without needing to be present on the same platform. It offers small retailers an opportunity to provide their services, and goods to buyers across the country through an e-commerce system, where buyers will be able to purchase the products, which are sold on any platform. "ONDC will help our small retail survive the onslaught of large tech-based e-commerce companies," Goyal said here at an event on the retail sector. He said that the effort is to encourage small companies, and startups to integrate into the e-commerce ...

Top 11 listed entities in Retail and QSRs opened 12 stores a day in 2022

The report added that companies have ramped up store launches to take advantage of lower rent rates at key locations

Restaurants to jewellery: Formal economy gains, small players lose in Covid

What has been an irreversible trend for a few years - the gradual formalisation of the economy - has received sudden acceleration with Covid-19

Organised retail market share to touch 10% by 2020 on new FDI norms: Crisil

This could mean increase in competition for domestic organised brick and mortar retailers