Comments on: Protect The Chain, But At What Cost?

By: xam

xam — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:14:16 +0000

Organized retail makes both consumer as well as the producer a king here.Millions of poor people who are leaving rural areas from states like bengal and bihar to work for meagre incomes as unorganized labourers in metro ghettos. This new development will certainly help them to come back to their roots and become a stakeholder in new reformed agriculture industry.

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By: Vishnu garg

Vishnu garg — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:23:47 +0000

Hi Organized retail will lead to economic development. That is the key factor for each country. Organized retail will increase money flow as consumer will purchase more from Retail as local shop due to limited facility in local shops.
Quality of product will increase as it is already proved that middle man in F & V are using chemical treatment that is harmful for Health.

This is natural tendency of human to reject the change.
Like initially when computer came in India. All who are involved in manual work rejected the Computer. But later on this is computer that increased the Indian economy developement.

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By: D N Nair

D N Nair — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:10:40 +0000

The proliferation of corporate retail outlets is sure to lead to competition among them. And when corporates battle, its no holds barred. As a consumer, I’m eagerly waiting for that day!

By: Neeraj

Neeraj — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:25:34 +0000

Exploitation of the poor is part of business and politics. Indian businessmen and politicians are doing an excellent job of that!

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:36:27 +0000

I don’t know when our Comrades in the west bengal finally will understand the effectiveness of the price driven free market system.

By: Balaji Viswanathan

Balaji Viswanathan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:04:50 +0000

You are making a big mistake in assuming that West Bengal government took a logical decision. Remember they are communists and a logical communist is always an oxymoron. Organized retail is a win-win for everybody - for customers (low prices), for government (high tax collection), for labor (better work environment), for farmers/industrialists (less wastage and deeper markets). The country as a whole will benefit with greater productivity and better supply-chain infrastructure along with spill-over effects in Finance, Transportation, etc.

But, communists have a concentrated vote-bank - a small fraction of the population in the form of organized labor in industries and public sector companies, and as long as we as a consumer and producer are going to be silent in this injustice (loosing the opportunity to buy from cheap discount shops), they are going to have their way. If the development in organized retail that would help 600 million farmers, 200 million industrial workers and 1 billion consumers has to come over the loss of few thousand kiranas, so be it. But, my guess is that a lot of enterprizing of them can join big chains as franchisees and develop their business with greater agility.

By: Amogh

Amogh — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:35:01 +0000

Seems like the government is just LOOKING for people to protect!

Good article…