The chain readies to expand its footprint as Bharti focuses on its retail venture.
The UK-based retailer can add to the best practices it already brings to Tata's retail business.
Cash-and-carry stores try tricks, from playing Bollywood music to customising orders, to retain customers.
Shopkeepers are losing buyers in droves to e-tailers for everything from fashion to smartphones, and are struggling to find solutions.
Taking control of manufacturing will help boost profits for the food business, but it could leave the group saddled with huge debt.
Since allowing FDI in multi-brand retail has been left to the states, Indian companies may not benefit as foreign investors are wary of the politics.
Global retail behemoths seem to have read the signals right.
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