Thursday, February 15, 2007

Wal-Mart likely to go for neighborhood store model

US retailer Wal-Mart is famous for its sprawling single story large format hypermarkets and supermarkets, but for its operations in India, the company is likely to go for stores that local customer will find comfortable, and is probably going to go for small neighborhood stores instead of its usual format. Consumers in India, prefer to do regular shopping instead of stocking up items in bulk, which is the usual system in the US and this is one of the key factors that will affect their choice of formats.

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