V2 Retail says 2021 festival sales above pre-COVID levels

V2 Retail, one of India’s largest value retail chains specializing in fashion and items of daily use, reported strong sales growth for July-September, and said the festival season this year has so far been better than pre-pandemic levels. Outside travel, tourism and entertainment sectors, the company had been one of the worst hit by the […]

V-Mart recovers 81% of Q3 sales YoY

After two torturous quarters, value-focused fashion and general merchandise retailer V-Mart reported an 81% like-to-like sales recovery for the Oct-Dec quarter. The number indicates that modern retail, with its air-conditioned showrooms, is still struggling to attract visitors unlike several other retail segments. Some of the other segments, such as automobiles, consumer durables and even some […]

Shoppers Stop to link physical stores with Amazon shopfront

Department store chain Shoppers Stop, the pioneer of organized retail in India and one of the country’s largest retailers of fashion and beauty products, will connect its individual stores to its Amazon shopfront by next month as part of its omni-channel strategy. It also said it would focus on Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns […]

D-Mart working on new cities, but COVID-19 impact to show

D-Mart, India’s most famous deep discount retail chain, said it is working on expanding its footprint beyond its current footprint of 214 locations, but the ongoing COVID-19 will impact the number of new stores that will be opened this year. The company, which started with just two stores in Mumbai in 2002-03, expanded to 214 […]