5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1602+ words) For almost two decades, the television set had one answer to every question. Who owned the living room? Samsung. Who could persuade a family to replace a perfectly functional screen with something larger, thinner, brighter and considerably more expensive? Samsung....

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (1581+ words) The smartphone is performing a useful trick inside Flipkart Minutes’ shopping basket. Remove mobile phones and the average net order value on Flipkart’s quick-commerce platform reportedly stands at ₹500-530. Blinkit recorded ₹518 during the June quarter. The two baskets suddenly look almost…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1631+ words) Bart De Wever landed in New Delhi on Wednesday night. In some ways, Antwerp arrived with him. Before becoming Belgium’s Prime Minister in February 2025, De Wever served as the mayor of Antwerp for 12 years. He knows the port that connects…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1670+ words) Your best friend knows why you stopped speaking to the woman from the old office. She remembers the name of the man you should never text after 11 pm. She has sat beside you in hospitals, lied to your mother on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1531+ words) Five generations spent 162 years building the name. One agreement will remove it from the family ledger. On August 31, Chennai-based GRT Jewellers signed a share purchase agreement to acquire the Zaveri family’s entire 74.12 per cent stake in Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri, better…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1478+ words) Nykaa has spent more than a decade building India’s most influential beauty mall. It invited brands into the building, introduced them to Indian customers, watched what flew off the shelves and learnt what shoppers kept returning. It saw the searches…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1734+ words) The shoes cost ₹65,000. Gaurav Chauhan paid, carried the Louis Vuitton bag out of the store and spent the next three nights wondering whether he had destroyed his life. This was 2016. Chauhan had begun earning well through luxury weddings, but his…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago   (172+ words) Open Magazine What if opening a store was no longer really about opening a store? That is the question increasingly shaping physical retail as brands try to give consumers a reason to leave the convenience of their phones and step…...