Grocery Stores in Andhra Pradesh can be found in the 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh namely Adilabad District, Anantapur District, Chittoor District, Cuddapah District, East Godavari District, Guntur District, Karim Nagar District, Khammam District, Krishna District, Kurnool District, Medak District, Mehbubnagar District, Nalgonda District, Nellore District, Nizamabad District, Prakasam District, Rangareddi District, Srikakulam District, Vishakhapatnam District, Vizianagaram District, Warangal District and West Godavari District.
Indian business groups, the empires as well as the individuals are attracted to western concepts like bees to honey. They want to follow the tried and tested Western concepts of business and profit when it comes to doing business in India. Guess the Indian models are not scalable fast enough to meet their ever soaring aspirations. Talking about grocery stores in Andhra Pradesh, we, as consumers have fallen easy prey to the media and instead of pav bhaji, khaman, chola bhatura and idlii-wada-dosa, we now consume noodles and pizzas, the latest Western “fast foods”, even if they are constipating in our climatic conditions. Many brands of Indian isabgol - psyllium sativa...with value addition...not in quality terms,...but in packaging, media hype, advertising and attractive trade margins are in the market. So much for hypermarkets, supermarkets ,food and retail sectors.
When it comes to business growth, few businesses have the slow and steady growth of the grocery stores in Andhra Pradesh based on customer models, social and product cycles as well as payment cycles that are essentially Indian in character. These have been influenced by western concepts over the years but the wholesalers, traders, stockists, clearing and forwarding agents, dealers and the grocers have ensured that while western products were welcome, large scale tampering with the retail industry was not welcome.
When we talk about grocery stores in Indian states, all their efforts have come to naught as super duper western brands rather than the best western technologies flood the Indian market now. Where technology passes into Indian hands, it is not the latest and the best....be it cars or potato chips. A simple example will be adequate. The writer of this article has, for the last 30 years, been using a tooth brush and has given up buying a “new and improved” tooth brush for years now! The tooth brush which Uncle Sam uses now, may be in my hands in 20 years if i am a good boy.
Nevertheless, as the grocery stores in Andhra Pradesh are mature businesses, they may be able to make an in-between transition to a model that while not having the high snob value of the western chains and products still delivers value, discernible as such to most Indian consumers. Secondly boom time has been on for a long time now. And when the downturn comes, grocery stores in Andhra Pradesh will be better coped to deal with it given their low overheads. They only need to spruce up their act and spruce the shop interiors a bit while retaining their coziness. The middles class in India cannot all become upper middle class and therein lies the solace of the grocers.
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