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The latter half of the increase has seen a fresh wave of entrants in the
retailing business. This time round, it is not the adventurous or innovative
manufacturer looking for one more avenues to build brand equity. These are pure
retailers who have no serious plans for getting into manufacturing. These new
retailer aims to live or die within the confines of their retails offerings. And this
time, it is not just textile or garment sellers.
There are entrants in various files of commerce Food world and
Subhiksha in food and FMCD, Planet M, Music world, Music caf, Fast Forward
and Groove in music : Crossword. Fountainhead and Navneet in books, Viveks
and Vijay Sales, through old hands in the consumer durables game, plan to
expand at a rapid pace. The scenario is similar for some existing players like
Niligiris or Arvind Brands, who seem to have decided that this is the time to be
up and running. The oil companies no longer want to stick to inflammables.
However, garments still remain a favored spot for big players. Glob us and
Lifestyle have offerings that rival international standards. Then there are those
who want it all under one roof, so you are not at cross purposes when you enter a
Crossroads in Mumbai or an Ansals Plaza in Delhi, Yes, and the syndrome is not
in India as well.
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WHY STUDY RETAILING
So far, it has been seen that retailing is a vital and involuntary action
performed by the living structure of the market economy (as opposed to the case
in a barter economy). In a barter economy, barter transactions take place between
consumers themselves. Consumers interact directly whereas in a centralized
market economy, transactions taking place at a larger scale (both in terms of
volume and variety) necessitate an interface between the manufacturers and final
consumers. Hence we reinforce the fact that retailing is not a new deal. This
industry is extant as an interface between production and consumption, from
times immemorial, benefiting us consumers or producers in the various ways
discussed above.
My study concentrates on organized retailing, which consists of shopping
malls, markets, chain stores, and like. In the last few years a shift occurred in
India from individual retail outlets owned separately and managed distinctively
to professionally managed retailing. This is an industry, which has now started
attracting better investments and talent. Things changed primarily because of the
rising expectations of Indian consumers and the corporate responding quickly.
Today, the industry (in India) seems to be functioning somewhere between the
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accelerated development and maturity stages, with high growth rates, intense
competition and moderate profitability.
In order to get an idea of the magnitude of the issue we are dealing with,we look at the international scenario. During 1992, the largest 100 retailers in the
world generated over $1.1 trillion in revenues.
Retailing is the second largest industry in the world, one of the largest
employers of the world and an index of economic growth. In India there are
about 5 million retail outlets varying in sizes and nomenclatures. India has the
highest number of retail outlets per capita in the world but has the lowest retail
space per capita in the world (2 ft / person). Out of these 5 million outlets 96%
are smaller than 500 sq. ft. in area 3. There are about 3 million outlets in Indias
3700 designated towns and more than 6,00,000 villages. About 350 million
people live, within one-minute walk of these retail shops.
According to retail census conducted by market researcher ORG-MARK,
Rs. 4,79,568 crore worth of products were sold through these 5 million retail
outlets.
Manufacturers owned and retail chain stores are springing up in urban
areas to market consumer goods to the middle class in a much similar style as
malls around the globe. At present about 8% of the Indian population is
employed in the retailing industry as against 20% in USA. As India moves
towards the service oriented economy, a rise in this percentage is expected. The
number of the retail outlets is growing at about 8.5% annually in the urban areas
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and in towns with population between 1,00,000 to 1 million; the growth rate is
about 4.5%
According to Kurt Association, a global management consulting firm,organized retailing seems all set to power ahead from Rs. 5000 crore currently to
about Rs. 30,000 crore in next five years. A.T. Kearney reports that organized
retailing will account for about 20% of the total $8 trillion retail market in India
in the next 5-7 years as against 1-2% today.
Consumer Spend by 2005 (in Rs. crore)
Unorganised Retailing : 7,08,836
Organized Retailing :
Food and grocery 5,956
Non food 23,886
In India, organized retailing is catching up fast. Yet retailing is to be
recognized as full-fledged industry in the India. Organized retailing is bound to
grow tremendously provided the right marketing strategies are adopted.
Even though the big retail chains are concentrating on the upper segment
and selling products at higher prices like Crossroads, Akbarallys and Shoppers
Stop, retail stores are sprouting that cater to the needs of the middle class. With a
huge middle class population, the retailers like RPGs Food World are tapping
this market. The market is flooded with products branded and unbranded.
The customers are in a dilemma as to pick which one! The organized retail
chains, display all the products and the most attractive product catches the
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services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational
objectives.
Organizational buyers purchase in order to perform a task or sell a producteffectively, efficiently and at a profit. They could be industrial buyers or
intermediary buyers. Industrial buyers are those who purchase goods and
services to be used in or to air manufacturing process. Intermediary buyers are
those (i.e. wholesalers and retailers) who buy merchandise for resale. Retailers
include street vendors, local supermarkets, department stores, restaurants, hotels,
barbershops, airlines and even bike and car showrooms. Still retailing may or
may not involve the use of a physical location. Mail and telephone orders, direct
selling to consumers in their homes and offices and vending machines all fall
within the purview of retailing. In addition to it, retailing may or may not
involve a retailer. Manufacturers, importers, non-profit firms and wholesalers
are acing as retailers when they sell goods and / or services to final consumers.
Whatever the form of retailing, a retail marketing strategy defines the
execution of the marketing process and facilitation of customer satisfaction. This
retail marketing strategy involves selecting a retail target market (i.e. the
carefully / exactly identified group of final consumers that a retailer seeks to
satisfy) and then implementing the corresponding retail marketing mix (i.e. a
combination of product, price, promotion and distribution strategies that will
satisfy the retail target market). The elements of the marketing mix encompass
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the facets shown in the table below. The table depicts consumer service as the
crux of the whole activity.
THE INDUSTRY STRUCTURE
Hence, commencing the study of retailing industry, we must first look at its
structure what the retailing industry is made up of, what is looks like. The
structure of the retailing industry can be studies from two perspectives
according to the form of ownership of various retail units or according to
the strategy mix that various retailers adopt.
Based on the form of ownership, various types of retailers comprising the
retailing industry are described below :
1. An unaffiliated or independent retailer is one who owns and
operates only one retail outlet. A family mostly owns it with high
dependence on the owner, thus affecting long run success and
employee morale. He is supposed to have a friendly personalized
image and his offering reflects the tastes and preferences of its owners
and customers. Kirana shops are very good examples of such retailers.
2. A Chain retailer or corporate retail chain owns and operates
multiple retail outlets (store units) under common ownership. Most
chains have well defined management philosophies, which tend to be
solid overall strategies. These contribute towards limiting the
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independence of the local owners of the individual units who, in
addition, lack commitment also.
Consistent strategies with reference to store hours, product assortment, prices, sales personnel, promotion and other policies must be maintained
throughout all branches in order to project a particular image to the chain. This
calls for centralized decision making which in turn result in difficulties for
individual units in adapting to local needs of the target markets.
There also exist associations of independent retailers, which are formed in
order to compete more effectively with corporate chain stores. They enjoy
benefits of a corporate chain while still maintaining status of individual owners.
These associations could be formed with other retailers (known as co-operative
chains), with sponsorship by a wholesaler (known as voluntary chains) rather
than by the retailers themselves or by franchise agreements sponsored by
manufacturers or distributors (known as dealers) or by service firms (known as
franchisees.)
3. A Franchise system results from a contractual agreement between a
franchiser and a retailer franchisee, thus allowing the franchisee to
conduct a given form of business under an established name as per a
particular business format in return for an initial fee and a percentage
of monthly gross sales as royalty. It helps franchise to create national
or international presence quickly and with similar investments (than
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required by the franchise alone for creating such a presence
independently).
There are some key questions that a franchisee must answer whileevaluating franchisee opportunity :
Does the franchise have a strong chance of competing in his community?
Does the franchise have potential for further growth or does its success
depend on a fad?
Will franchise ownership be an advantage in the business he is considering
or could he do as well on his own.
What is the companys attitude towards
Development of new products, franchisee termination and renewal, and
territorial protection for existing franchisees?
4. A Leased Department (LD) is a department in a retail store that is
rented to an outside party. If the existing store is well known, with a
large number of steady customers, it becomes easier for the LD to
generate immediate sales. It operates in categories on the fringe of the
stores major product lines and it must be taken care that it is not a
parasite and does not live off the traffic generated by other parts of the
store. Thus goods or services lines that it can offer may be restricted.
Apart from this, various requirements are imposed to ensure overall
consistency and co-ordination.
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labour or of getting access to healthful, environmentally safe plots, not
available from traditional stores.
INDUSTRY PLAYERS
What is the reason that big groups like Tatas, ITC, Piramal Enterprises and
S. Kumars are putting huge amounts of money into retailing?
The answer is very simple. Now, just a couple large organized retailers are
in the market whose turnover crosses Rs. 100 crore. And in this sector anything
above 25 crore counts you as a major player. Consultants like A.t. Kearney have
predicted that by year 2005 retailing will be worth Rs. 1,60,000 crore in India.
Table 1 give an overview of the main players in this sector along with their expansion plans :
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Table 1 : Indias Large Retailers
Company Turnover (in
Rs.Crores)
Outlets Space (insqft)
Expansion Plans (to beachieved by 2002)
RPG 156 27 Food world 2
Music World 4SpencersOutlets
200 000 50 Food World 8 Music
World 18 Health & Glowoutlets for total turnover of 23.75 crores per month
ShoppersStop
130 1 each inMumbai,Bangalore,Hyderabad,Delhi, Jaipur
100 000 15-17 outlets if FIPBapproves Foreign Equity
Vivek &Co.
90 8 in Chennai 3 inBanglore 1 inSalem
100 000 10 stores in Chennai andBangalore 7 in Hyderabad,Vishakapatnam &Vijayawada
Nilgiris 76 17 Supermarkets14 Cakeshops
80 000 4 outlets 30% growth interms of turnover 289stores by 2007
Pantaloon 60 12 stores 40franchises
90 000 11 superstores
NANZ 40 15 Supermarkets 70 100 N.A.Vitan 25 11 Departmental
Stores
50 000 25 Outlets 100 crore
turnover Crosswor D
16 Bookstores inAhmedabad,Delhi, Mumbai,Pune, Goa,
Nasik
27 000 25 stores
Landmark N.A. 1 in Chennai andCoimbatore
18 000 Plans to open Mall inCalcutta with Emami
KempChain of Stores
N.A. 2 stores inBangalore
125 000 Kemp City retailing cumentertainmentdevelopment, over 200
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acresCharaghDin
N.A. Mumbai store 10 000 Will remain singlelocation store
Source : Rushing into Retailing Business World, 31 May, 1999
FACTORS BEHIND THE CHANGE
Whats deriving the change?
There are some concrete factors:
Economic Progress: The rate of growth in Indian has gradually picked up
in the last two decades. In the eighties it breached the so-called Hindu rate
of growth and reached 5 percent levels, by the end of the nineties even this
was considered unacceptable. During at least 3 of the last 5 years the gross
domestic products has grown over the 7 percent levels. The government is
pushing for 8 percent over the next few years. Various international
leaders visiting India have expressed consensus over Indias this higher
rate of growth is bound to have an effect on the buying power and
disposable incomes.
Urbanization : Rising prosperity and population inevitably drive this
trend. Thesis true of India as well. The number of towns with population
of more than 10 lakhs continues to increase as do the size of already large
towns. These are the segments of interest to retailing aspirates is the
ascending traffic congestion levels. Indias automobile sales have
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multiplied in the 1990s. The net result is overcrowded towns and parking
hassles. One-stop shops become the places of choice in such a scenario.
Consumerism : Consumers the world over have their aspirations andIndia consumers are no different. In the past 3 years, when the economy
was not doing very well consumer durables sales in India were coasting at
close to 20 percent growth levels. He music industry followed the same
pattern. Driving this trend was media and cable TV proliferation, which
have been growing at a fast clip for a few years not. The resultant
exposure to new ideas and desires are fuelling consumer demand.
Brand Profusion : There has been an explosion of branded goods as a
corollary to the receptive conditions created by the above mentioned
trends. In the 1980s, there was just one brand of salt in the Indian market
Tata Salt oils used to be sold losses till a few years ago. Now there are at
least ten known brands of oil and in more variations than Indians have
ever used in the last few hundred years. Pack size proliferation is another
trend. This year, the shelves of retail supermarket find six brands of salt.
Just about every respectable brand in the world in consumer durable has
operations in India. Numerous garment brands have appeared in the last 2
to 3 years. These need shelf space and display.
Cheaper real estate : Real estate is the largest fixed investment for a
retailer. In the last few years real estate prices have tumbled. According to
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Price This will be most powerful magnet to drive footfalls. If you can
undercut successfully then market share will follow. This strategy has
worked wonderfully in affluent countries as the success of Wal- Mart or the European hypermarkets show. We have been this is Indonesia,
Thailand and Taiwan, and it is now happening in China. While
hypermarkets remain distant possibility in India, Subhiksha is clearly
showing that nothing works like price. This is the strategy all food
retailers will have to follow.
Service Consumer durables surveys indicate that consumers are confused
about brand benefits. A well informed sales staff would then be a
competitive advantage. No consumer durables retailer really has that yet in
India. So service can be a big differentiator in this difficult market sector.
It can work in other segments of retailing as well; Leading retailers in any
segment of retailing worldwide swear by good service Indian retailers
have already ignored this issue.
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THE INDIAN CONSUMER
What we buy and why we by
Understanding customer through socioeconomic or psychographic studies is
critical for retail chains. What do such studies say about India.
Dualities are omnipresent In the natural world or in commerce Capital
Profits owner-employee, liabilities-assets are common binaries from the
commercial world. The retailer consumer duality is one such close partnership.
The consumer is therefore central to many issues about organized retail. Is
the India market ready for organized retail? This is the 100 store question facing
many new and prospective entrants today. Consumer in sights are necessary to
arrive at any judgment on this for those already in business or in the process of
entering consumer knowledge is key to business strategy, including decision like
locations store size and form a, merchandise, break-even period and thus even
funding strategy.
This chapter looks at two issues- measurements of the Indian consumer markets and techniques employed by retailer to gather consumer knowledge.
Macroeconomic data is an important indicator of a countrys attractiveness.
Beyond this one needs to look at state or city specific data. Even this may not be
enough for retailer to make market entry decisions. At this state a retailer needs
to top market research methodologies to get precise information. MR techniques
are also more relevant once the retailer is in business. Some techniques for
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existing business are also discussed the chapter on Customer Relationship
Management.
CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
Macro economic and household information gives a picture of consumer
buying power or the wallet size. The retail also needs to understand many more
issues about a consumer before he can take various strategic decisions like
location, store format or merchandise mix. For example, knowing where and
when a customer buys has implication on location and format Similarly
promotional strategy could be made better if the retailer had idea of the decision
making process could be made better if the retailer had idea of the decision
making process could be of the consumer. Among readily visible trends in urban
India is the increasing acceptance of casual clothing among urban Indian women.
Even the alliance at the work place has become for more relaxed about casual
wear. The Eastern influence has been heightened with the entry of a large
number of multinational corporation (MNCs) Friday wear has almost become a
corporate philosophy. In line with this trend, Allen Solly has introduced their
collection of casual office wear.
Most garment companies have originated a range of sold and bright plains
in shirt, to tap into the informal work wear ethic.
Commuting times have increased in large towns. This would indicate a
need for one-stop which could translate into a multi-brand large format store or a
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mall. With the increasing trend towards nuclear families the average family size,
especially in metros in declining. In fact empty nesters an American terms for
parents whose children have grown up and have left home and who are savingfor retirement are rapidly becoming a common phenomena in Indian metros.
Such a customer might prefer the convenience of home delivery or direct
marketing.
Some of these trends are also clearly visible in the late study
commissioned by KSA Technopak on the Indian Consumer.
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OBJECTIVE OF STUDY
1. To find out the difference in the services offered by a traditional store
vis a vis a Mall.
2. To find out the demographic profile of the consumer visiting traditional
store vis a vis Mall.
3. To find out the factors which motivate consumers to buy from a Mall
rather than from a traditional store..
4. To find out the change in the average monthly expenditure of consumer
while they make purchase from a mall in comparison to a traditional
store.
5. To find out the impact of Mall Culture on the buying behaviour of
Agra consumer.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology is a way to systematically solve the research
problem. It comprises of the various steps adopted by researcher along with the
logic behind it. According to Hudson All progress is born of inquiry. Doubt
is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry and inquiry leads
to inventions.
Research Type : Descriptive research
Universe : All the people of the city of Agra who buy any
product / services from a Mall or a traditional
store.
Sample Unit : A person of the city of the city of Agra who buy
any product / services from a Mall or a traditional
store.
Sample Size : 100
Type of Data : Primary Data
Secondary Data
Questionnaire
Various Retail Web Sites
Tools : Personal Interview
Sampling Method: Judgement and Convenience
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A NEW SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
However, disadvantages of allowing FDI in retail are significant. While
Wal-Mart may boost exports and buy directly from farmers, invest in food
processing and raise standards of agricultural products, it would affect livelihood
of 15 million small retailers acting as middlemen. Though this sector is largely
unorganized, they constitute 98 percent of the countrys retail trading and
contribute to 11 percent of GDP. With Wal-Marts entry, many of these retailers
will be rendered unemployed.
A country wilting under pressures of unemployment will find it hard to
suppress the ensuing social tension.
Global retail giants would recruit people who are educated and skilled.
Small time retailers might not stand a chance. Moreover, the retail houses may
be capital rather than labour-intensive. How is one to assume that retail giants
would source products from India and raise its exports? They may source from
low wage countries like Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal or China. How can one be
sure that they would invest in food processing and help Indian farmers to sell
their produce directly to them and earn a better price? What happens when
farmers are unable to meet exact specifications and their produce is rejected? All
these questions need to be addressed before a decision is taken.
However, it is absurd to believe that once branded products enter the
market, unbranded products enter the market, unbranded products will lose their
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demand base. The Indian market is not integrated or homogenous. It caters to
different income groups. Such an argument is baseless.
The governments decision to allow 51 percent equity in single brandretailing to foreigners, after much deliberation, confirms that it is quite cautious
in its approach to opening up retailing. It knows domestic retailers interest need
to be considered. Hence, providing some lead time to local players to
consolidation their position seems to be the best option.
MALL MANIA
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In all metros, major and minor, across the country, the shopping mall is changing
lifestyles and landscapes. If the mall is undergoing a second wave of expansion
and reinvention in Mumbai and Bangalore, then its arrival in cities likeVisakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar has led to a rethink of established business
norms. In their varying shapes, sizes and descriptions, malls promise to change
the way India does shopping. At the peak of the Puja season in Kolkata this year,
the alleys of the citys iconic New Market were far from crowded. There was not
a single serpentine queue to be found.
Given an alternative, Kolkatas citizenry had chosen to go elsewhere to
the mall which has turned shopping from an ordeal to an outing, and become a
community hub where families congregate, entertain themselves and also buy
things. Kolkatas Forum Mall, Nashiks Big Bazaar, Velocity in Indore and
Mumbais Inorbit are the flagships of Indias booming mall culture. Vikas Jain, a
32-year-old garment exporter from Ludhiana, visits the newly inaugurated Ansal
Plaza once in five days. Visiting a mall has become a family outing with
entertainment, shopping and eating all under one roof, he says.
As the awareness and share of organized retail grows, developers are
rushing to keep up with the demand. By 2007, 22 new malls will be added to
Mumbais current tally of 10 operational malls, while the National Capital
Region will see 18 new malls. The Indian consumer is, perhaps for the first time,
king, and promoters know it.
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A malls strategy depends on its catchment area and the demographics it
serves. Forum in Kolkata is located on Elgin Road, an upmarket shopping area in
the middle of the city, and houses tenants like Shoppers Stop and the INOXmultiplex. Another Kolkata mall Metropolis on Eastern Metropolitan Bypass,
which is chock-a-block with middle-and lower-income group housing colonies,
sells itself as the inexpensive mall experience. Its biggest tenant is Big Bazaar.
The big-city malls other hook is parking. Bangalores Garuda Mall has
succeeded not only because of its stores but also because of its mega car park,
which takes in 1,000 cars. Says D.G. Uday, CEO of Garuda Mall: Consumers
want a comfortable environment that offers shopper-tainment a combination of
shopping and entertainment. The Phoenix Mills shopping mall in an old textile
mill area in central Mumbai has proved so popular, thanks to its mix of high-and
low-end brands, and options in both food and shopping, that the parking space
made available initially has proved inadequate. Now shoppers weave their way
past the construction site of multi-storey car park.
Drawing crows is, however, not the same as drawing profits. When a mall
opens most of the visitors are window shoppers. Mall in India have had to take
this in their stride and be innovative. In the first phase, investors bought mall
space from developers, especially in Gurgaon, at a premium, in the hope of
making a killing. That resulted in empty retail spaces and poor customer traffic.
Says the CEO of a retail brand, which is a big anchor tenant in most malls:
Gurgaon is a mess.
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Today, customers take air-conditioning and parking facilities as basic.
Value for money has changed to value for time. This makes quality of service on
time very important, he says.Leased mall space gives businesses a better chance of making profits. The
mall locks in the tenant for at least three year and big anchor tenants, like
multiplexes and chains like Shoppers Stop and Westside, for a longer period.
Every mall needs its anchors, which are its biggest draw. They could be a
superstore like Big Bazaar multiplexes like Delhis PVRS. The anchor is
meant to give a pull in return visits, stable footfalls and revenues. When the
INOX opened at Kolkatas Forum, it changed the economics of the mall.
According to Manoj Bhatia of INOX, Expenditure increased by 30 percent and
rentals doubled. You get everything for everyone under one roof, she says.
According to a KPMG study, retail sales of consumer goods in India are
expected to rise from Rs. 15,02,900 crore in 2004 to Rs. 27,70,400 crore by
2009. Organized retail is still at a nascent stage in India but there are some
pointers to the major growth areas. It is estimated that in 2003, the Indian
consumer spent 41 percent of his disposable income on groceries. It is, therefore,
easy to understand why malls, which have hypermarkets like Big Bazaar and
Shoprite as their anchors, tend to do better than others.
Getting people to a mall once is easy. Getting them to return and spend
money depends on a mall promoters ability to produce a good mix of shop-
pertainment. As footfalls increase so does the size of the mall from a modest
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sources assert that a well-managed business can give better returns in both forms
of business.
These rates of return are attractive. They are better than cost of funds andalso better than many other businesses in India. This means, big business is
likely to look at organized retail in a serious fashion. This is what to be
happening too, given the way most large business houses in India are
formulating plans for retailing.
INDIA NEEDS FDI IN RETAIL
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economically efficient. But there are strong reasons to believe that in India, they
will not be able to mine what CK Prahalad called the gold at the bottom of the
pyramid. While big-time retailing will definitely succeed in India, and bring
with it great benefits to middle and upper class consumers (and associated spin-
offs like real estate development), the armies of small traders who break down
bulk even further to cater to the numberless masses will continue to thrive.
Supermarkets will typically cater to car-owners who buy up a months supplies
at a time. They will buy big bottles of shampoo, cartons of cigarettes, and big
sacks of rice. The small traders will sell product in little sachets, loose cigarettes,half-a-kilo of rice, and so on. Their numbers will flourish and grow.
Even in rich nations, small traders manage to compete very effectively
with supermarket chains. In London, almost every corner shop is owned by an
Indian. We are the shopkeepers to a nation of shopkeepers! it does not behove
a nation of such splendid shopkeepers to fear foreign supermarkets.
The upshot of it all, of course, is that for the nation to progress, efficiency
gains in distribution are a must inordinately long distributional chains make trade
slow, expensive and cumbersome. As India progresses, it is vital that this chain
see shrinkage. What could very well work in the interests of both the small
traders as well as their poor customers are wholesale supermarkets, like
Bangalores Metro Cash & Carry, which caters to small traders and has therefore
located its sprawling stores outside the main city. Such wholesale supermarkets
will enable small traders to increase their margins and also pass on some of their
gains to the final customers.
The distributional chain will shrink, but not at the cost of the small traders.
Rather, it is the inefficient wholesalers and sub-wholesalers who will see a loss
of business. Wholesale supermarkets will be able to mine the gold at the bottom
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of the pyramid : but their product mix will vary immensely from retail
supermarkets.
In either case, in all our cities today, wholesale markets are invariably in
part of the old city : Congested and inaccessible. The real estate development
that will accompany FDI in retail as well as wholesale trade will make it possible
for a redrawing of city maps, with all these supermarkets sprouting all around the
periphery. This process of rebuilding the civic architecture around which urban
commerce works will give us a golden opportunity to get thins right for once as
far as city trade and traffic management is concerned.We can learn lessons from Seoul, where wholesale supermarkets stay open
all night, enabling small traders to come in from the surrounds after the evening
rush and depart with their wares before the morning rush hour.
If at all the government is genuinely concerned about small traders, then
it should implement policies that make them invulnerable to the hafta brigade
that milks them of their surpluses. Like every other Indian, they too need the
state off their backs.
CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR RETAILING
Organized retailing is not a bed of roses for the big players also. In
addition to the advent of Internet, various issues glare at retailing some of them
are :
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Human Resource :
Big retail shops do not confine their target segments for employees to
undergraduates. Shoppers stop broke the myth of MBAs not wanting to go intothe retailing career. Cross Roads and Spencer also hire MBAs to manage their
chains. However there still exists a gap between the supply and demand of
professionals. Mr. Goenka, Chairman RPG Group, hopes that one of the greatest
challenges facing modern retailing in India is the availability of trained
personnel. In order to address the problem RPG Group has set up a national
retail Institute in Chennai, which offers a variety of courses in retail management
for frontline, supervisory and managerial post.
Retaining the human resources is also a major challenge for these big
retailers. The bigwigs like Crossroads offer high compensation and create a
cohesive environment that makes an employee proud to be a part of such big
retail chains.
Space and Infrastructure :
To establish a retail shop/ Mall, the real estate and the infrastructure are
very vital. The expenditure and availability on both the accounts do hinder the
growth of the retail chain. The land ceiling restrictions and other state
restrictions on land use have prevented the growth of efficient retailing in the
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cities. An average investment of about Rs. 5 crore is required to establish a mall
and that explains the rush of big companies into this business. Small and
individual retailers find it difficult to pour in that much of investment. Inaddition to the initial investment, to combat e-tailing, expenditure has to be
incurred on technological side. This makes the retail projects less attractive for
the individual players.
Consumer Mindset Towards Discount Stores :
In India the concept of discount stores like Wall-Mart, at which genuine,
defect free international brands are available at 50% discount, is yet to catch on.
Still, The major section of customers is conservative and choosy and prefers to
go to a known retail shop than opt for a discount store. Very few discount stores
like SM2, Mumbai are at present operational. Its reach is confined to major
cities. Breaking the conventional mindset of the Indian consumers that discount
stores do not sell inferior goods will take some time.
Rural Market How To Penetrate?
Penetration into the rural market is what big retailers have to concentrate
on for growth. Attracting rural markets will be different from that of the urban
market. For example detergent cakes are preferred to powder and coconut oil in
bottle to sachets in the rural areas. The rural consumer are different from the
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There are really not enough players in the supermarket business for the business
itself to provide a direct answer to the cynics. Food world and Subhiksha are yet
to break even. Nilgiris has a large own brand portfolio, which entails higher margins.
Since organized retailing has a higher cost structure because of larger
manpower requirements and bigger investments in interiors and technology- it
needs higher turnover than existing fragmented stores for each its stores. In fact,
this is the entire premises of organized retail, which aims to achieve higher sales
by offering customers a better deal in one or more of the following disciplines.
Ambience
Service
Product assortment
Prices
The assumption upon which a Food world or a Globus chain is setup is
that, give the right advantage, a customer would prefer to travel that little extra
distance from his/her friendly neighborhood store. Outlets like Shoppers Stop,
Cross World and Planet M in Mumbai, and Food world or Subhiksha in Chennai,
already provide that chain stores can attract more than the threshold level of
customers. The reason that some of these chains have yet to be break even
possibly owes to the fact that they are currently in a stage of rapid expansion.
Each of these has fairly successful individual stores, which shows that they can
be financially viable in spite of larger cost commitments.
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Higher turnover can enable a chain to cut prices further, which leads to even
better customer response.
Findings and Analysis
The following results emerged out of the survey.
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(1) As the results indicate the number of people visiting the malls have a
larger proportion of males in comparison to the females with
percentage figures of males 60% and females 40%.
(2) People falling in the age group of 18 25 years has the largest
proportion as visitors with the percentage of 41%. Remaining
categories of age group had percentage figures as follows : Upto 18
years-14%; 18 25 years 41%; 25 35 years 23%; 35 50 years 14%
above 50 years 8%.
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(3) The third factor taken up was occupation of the visitors and the resultsdeclare that service class people and students were the one who visit
the malls most with percentage of 40% and 35% respectively. Other
occupational aspects covered were business people, retired people and
housewives and their proportions were 16%, 3% and 6% respectively.
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(5) Malls have become a symbol of affluent life style became evident from
the responses as 32% people market it as one of the reasons to visitmalls (figure). This was clubbed with convenience of getting most
things under the same roof along with good environment and service.
The various reasons for visiting the malls as rated by the customers
are : life style-32%, convenience-29%, good service-21%, ambience-
20%, quality of items-20%, social influence-13%.
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(7) Convenience in shopping is giving malls an edge over the general
scattered market where customers had to visit different places to make
their purchases while at the malls they are getting most of their
household items at the same corner. Malls are also emerging as a good place to hang around or pass time whenever you are free. The visitors
of the malls whose percentage ranged as high as 20% established this
(figure). Multiplex and upcoming branded food joints were also pulling
visitors towards the malls as it was providing them variety at the same
place. One factor, which was not included in the questionnaire but was
told by many is that the malls are also a suitable place for love birds as
they can roam freely without spending much and without being
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bothered by anyone. The proportion of visitors responding this was
about 19%. Also became known that malls were being used as a
complete day out / picnic spot where you could spend time, eat, enjoy,
watch movies, shop and be merry (Figure).
(8) It was also discovered that the branded items were a preferable
purchase in comparison to the unbranded items while there was a good
percentage of people who would purchase both branded as well as
unbranded items (figure). People also disclosed that the branded
products range carried by malls was larger in comparison to the general
shops but in the case of unbranded products the prices were more in thesame comparison.
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(9) An insight in the amount of money spent in each visit disclosed that
most customers spent an amount ranging Upto Rs. 500- 17%; from Rs.
500-1000, the percentage of such people was 36%. The figures that
followed were:- Rs. 1000-2000-34%; and Rs. 2000 and above 13%.
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(10) Customers were also driven to the malls by the sales schemes that
would come from time to time. Though the category of people who
always come to the malls during such schemes was only 15% and those
who never get affected by these was 20%. The highest percentage 45%
is of people who sometimes take note of these schemes and visit malls
during that time. Such schemes also affect the amount spent in
purchases, as people tend to purchase more to make best use of
opportunities available particularly in the household item categorywhere the consumption is on regular basis.
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(11) A comparison of the products available at the malls with those at the
general market revealed strong opinions of customers regarding price,
quality, variety and service provided.
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(12) But the way no coins is with a single side, similarly the well-developed
consumer friendly malls even suffer from shortcomings and
drawbacks. Digging inside this aspect several problems were also
reported by the consumers. Rush at the cash counters in the wee hours
and the generally huge crowd topped the list of problems with as high
as 96% and 89% people reporting it. Though the malls have all the
consumer friendly arrangements but the multi-storeyed and complex
structures often leave consumers confused about the utilities, a huge
82% people reported requirement of maps and guidelines in the malls.
Parking followed the list of severe problems with 80% people facing parking space problem and 71% people complaining about the massive
time consumed during entry and exit of vehicles. Unavailability of
washrooms on all the floors was the next in sequence with 64% people
reporting it, followed by problems of sitting arrangement and drinking
water, which were brought into notice by 63% and 62% visitors
respectively 60% of the people coming to malls also complained about
the absence of any medical facilities or even chemist shops in the
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malls, and for even small health problems they had to rush out. Some
48% visitors also reported small sizes of the lifts. Quite a good number
of people (44%) were also worried about the lack of proper security
systems and the vulnerability of malls towards any antisocial elementswho can be a threat to the otherwise comfortable environment. Some
people (22%) also said that the malls are becoming a centre for the neo
rich and do not accommodate the lower income group customers for
whom there were no products.
P ROBLEMS
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LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
(i) Biasness in data due to secondary information.
(ii) Study limited to Agra and nearby area.
(iii) There is no positive initiative taken by the respondent.
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CONCLUSION
Finding good quality, variety and service under the same roof along with
other facilities of time pass and entertainment, clubbed with ambience and life
style, the customers are moving fast and in number towards these malls and are
willingly ready to pay higher prices for the facilities. The malls are gradually
becoming a package of activities instead of segregation. This is the reason why
this culture has clicked the customers so well and so fast. If the problems that are
being faced by the consumers are dealt properly, even higher proportions of
visitors can be attracted. The fast track way, mall culture is picking up, if
managed properly, the brick and mortar stores will have a new face very soon
with lot of style and fresheness.
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QUESTIONNAIRE
1- Name of the respondent?
2- Sex?
(a) Male (b) Female
3- Age?
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