Grocery Stores in Gujarat are run mostly but not all by the traditional business community of Gujarat, the Vaniyars. The business practices vary sharply from region to region. For this, the classification Ahmedavad, Saurashtra, Kutch, North Gujarat, Central Gujarat and South Gujarat. Central Gujarat, South Gujarat and Ahmedavad are relatively more prosperous. As a rule, credit is generally frowned upon in the urban areas and you can buy plenty of display stickers which say exactly this.
Grocery Stores in Gujarat are aplenty namely in the in the District Of Amreli, District Of Anand, District Of Banaskantha, District Of Barauch, District Of Bhavnagar, District Of Dahod, District Of Gandhinagar, District Of Jamnagar, District Of Junagadh, District Of Kheda, District Of Kachchh, District Of Mehsana, District Of Narmada, District of Navsari, District Of Panchmahal, District Of Patan,District Of Porbander,District Of Rajkot,District Of Sabarkantha, District Of Surat, District Of Surendranagar, District Of The Dangs, District Of Vadodara and the District Of Valsad.
The products that are on offer for sale overlap across the different types of shops. It is in order to take a brief look at the increasing categories of the shops. Medical stores, Pan shops (not just kiosks but fancy shops, larger than most grocery stores in Gujarat), General (daily needs) or provision stores (excluding flour, grains, cereals and the like), swank grocery stores and traditional stores rule the roost.
With an ever increasing range of products to stack shop shelves and grocery stores in Indian states without the shelves, wholesalers, dealers, stockists, sales reps and sales officers and managers have followed innovative shop display and sale strategies. Also thanks to westernization, today a medical shop's costliest displays are for Gillette shaving razors and Mars and Snickers chocolates, sanitary napkins is displayed at traditional grocers and Gouda and Mozzarella cheese at the pan shop.
Parts of cities such as Ahmedabad, Vadodara and even our Rajkot today are competing as in the US. In a Mom and Pop store like situation between traditional avenues for distributing products and the new supermarkets, hypermarkets and the shopping malls. The writer has often wondered how many kinds of outlets can exist in Ahmedabad for a Barbie doll. While Bombay or Baroda may not be the perfect case study, a city like Ahmedabad would be a good place to analyze the give and take that retail in Ahmedabad has become.
While the looks on the faces of grocers at grocery stores in Gujarat say that times are difficult, little else can be perceived and hence he or she cannot be written off. The only thing they do not have going for them is that people are buying cars in the cities in big numbers and some of these are people who think they get “ bargains” in a mall! Only the Gujarat grocers can explain that the bargain now may not translate into a bargain later.
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