While Blinkit and Zepto were burning through hundreds of crores in venture capital to deliver groceries in 10 minutes, a business model born in a British mill town in 1844 was quietly outpacing both of them in the Indian heartland. Nobody in a Mumbai boardroom saw it coming — but the numbers in 2026 are … Read more
When I walked into a Sahakari Bhandar outlet in Dadar, Mumbai, last year, the prices on staples like tur dal and sunflower oil were noticeably lower than what I had paid the previous afternoon at a nearby Reliance Smart store. That was not a coincidence. It was the result of a model that has been … Read more
The legislative fix for retail worker abuse in Western Australia has already cleared one chamber of parliament — what’s missing now is urgency from the other. Every week the upper house stalls, the same repeat offenders keep walking back through the same doors. The Australian Retail Council (ARC) is calling on the WA Government to … Read more
Small and mid-sized retailers inside Sharjah’s shopping malls may soon operate under a very different set of conditions — flexible leases, climate-resilient infrastructure, and wellness-aligned tenant strategies that look nothing like traditional mall management. The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry convened an expanded meeting with the Shopping Malls Sector Business Group to review how … Read more
