Organised retail is an ideamore suited to american life style.India has a long history of trade,both in wholesale and retail which is well oiled and quite organised.The talk of removing middleman is absolutely nonsense. Has all these new retailer hvae eliminated wholesalers/distributors/stockists-read middlemen while marketing their products in other businesses? NO. farmer getting higher price is equally untrue.The reason is small farm holdings.Thus an individual farmer has to be dependent on mandis and traders(i.e.Middleman). Yes,we do need reforms in retail business in areas of meteriology,quality,packing.storage,payment gateways etc.where the customers are being usually short changed.
RE:Big Retail's big mistakes
by slash on Oct 08, 2007 06:11 PM Permalink
if thereal middlemen are removed, better storage facilities and food loss stopped, and prices come down by a third, give farmers thier due then we can appreciate the big retailers.
