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Retail Management

Notes manner that they could challenge the power of the sellers, most protests have been in the form
of boycotts, which really haven’t hit any company permanently.

Convenience Stores

A convenience store is a small store that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries,
toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, tobacco products, and newspapers. They have a wide category
of products and have a minimum required stock of each. They are open for long hours and are
situated at various convenient locations. They differ from general stores and village shops in
that they are not in a rural location and are used as a convenient supplement to larger stores.
A convenience store may be part of a gas/petrol station. It may be located alongside a busy road,
in an urban area, or near a railway or railroad station or other transport hub. In some countries,
convenience stores have very long shopping hours, some being open 24 hours.

Convenience stores usually charge higher prices than ordinary grocery stores or supermarkets,
which they make up for with convenience by serving more locations and having shorter cashier
lines.
Some of the Major convenience Store chains with their locations in India are as follows:
Reliance Fresh - All India
Spencers - All India

More - All India
Easyday - Mainly in Punjab and Delhi currently.
Big Apple - Delhi and surroundings
Sabka Bazaar - Mainly in Delhi and surroundings.

6Ten - Mainly Delhi and Punjab
Nilgiris - Mainly South India - Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
Big Bazaar - All India (India’s Walmart)
Also, a lot of Petrol pumps in big cities have IN & OUT or CONVENIO convenience stores.

Supermarkets

A supermarket, a large form of the traditional grocery store, is a self-service shop offering a
wide variety of food and household products, organized into aisles. It is larger in size and has a
wider selection than a traditional grocery store, but is smaller and more limited in the range of
merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box shop.
The supermarket typically comprises meat, fresh produce, dairy and baked goods aisles, along
with shelf space reserved for canned and packaged goods as well as for various non-food items
such as household cleaners, pharmacy products and pet supplies. Most supermarkets also sell a
variety of other household products that are consumed regularly, such as alcohol (where
permitted), medicine, and clothes, and some stores sell a much wider range of non-food products.

3.5 Integration of Food Industry – The Key Driver of Food Retail in
India

India is world’s second largest grower of fruits and vegetables after Brazil and China. While the
agriculture sector has witnessed several leaps of innovation and technological advancements,

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