For a change I agreee with that organised retailers would have a negative impact on our society as a whole. We still are a ppor country and we need to create more jobs and more avenues of earnings. Ltes not get carried away by by the initial low prices which these retalers offer. Its all marketing strategy. lets go to a western country and understand the whole dynamics. if you are in US or Uk or any other devoped country and wish to say buy a shirt or some vegetables you have necessarily to go a big retailer and sheel out a huge amount. There are no small shopkeepers like we have. Our folks in India are still able to survive despite their meagre earnings because of these small time traders who don't calculate their own efforts in their costing. They don't have any overheads and survive on low margins.
What I would though support is a good wholesale system where-in farmers can come and sell their produce at good rates and retailers can also pick up the stuff from there for further distribution.
We are a unique country with different set of probelems and social structure. Our economic model also needs to be different than of that of west.
RE:Big retailers are bad for the country like ours
by kalyan kumar on Aug 24, 2007 02:20 PM Permalink
Great idea!!! Who is going to implement that system???? Dont tell me this impotents of our Govt. who cannot even think.. forget implementing it.. Everyone knows the Agri GDP component has been falling drastically in India more than any developing country... Why the hell we still believe these guys, who are trying to create an impotent INDIA. One other commercial guy wud come up with a better idea when the market is free. There are multiple options to regulate things, when its critical.. but lets not stop growth, which anyway this govt. cannot do even in next 60 yrs.
