Guynextdoor2
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Your post seems contradictory. How can Importing an American business model that is focused on maximizing their own profits help us increase our productivity? Secondly How can a business model that has been designed keeping in mind the minimum use of human capital increase employment?
For India:
American model(malls, giant retailers(WALLmart) = NO!
Euro/Local Model (mum and pop stores, local produce) = YES !
Because our Supply Chain really is that f**ked. Technically, the arguments proposed by protectionists (BJP, Left etc.) is equal to whta you have said- our 'Kirana store' is equal to your 'mom and pop'. But it addresses only the retail side and is explicitly designed to protect a really sloppy supply chain on the back end. Lemme ask you something- when the prices of onions go up who benifits? Does the farmer get more? No- he's as poor as before. Is it because supply has gone down? No- we've been having bumper crops of late? Price of petrol? How does a 5% increase in petrol result in a 100% increase in onion prices? It's the middlemen who make a killing and make the consumers and farmers suffer. Big retail with direct sourcing and big price competition between themselves will ensure that this vicious cycle is broken- I don't think the US has seen a 200% increase in onoin prices in the last few decades for sure. I'm not saying we need to take it to the extremes that the US has done, but our approach- limited presence in major cities- will make it both viable as well as healthy for our retail sector. Most improtatly it will reall convulse the existing players of our supply chain and make things favorable to the consumers.