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		<title>A Thousand Miles</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/09/04/a-thousand-miles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last three years have been a roller coaster ride for food &#038; grocery modern retail in India. Here's a view from inside one of the cars. [More...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrying and Being Carried</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/05/31/carrying-and-being-carried/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 07:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So as we go about our day, launching and growing brands, opening new stores, creating new products, I offer you this thought to reflect upon: are we carrying, or being carried? [More...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green or Blue Genes?</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/02/28/green-or-blue-genes/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/02/28/green-or-blue-genes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Blue genes. Green Genes. No matter which side of the table you are on the issue of genetically modified (GM) foods, you can be assured that the picture is far from clear. Here are some reasons why.]]></description>
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		<title>Private Label Maturity Model</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/01/05/private-label-maturity-model/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/01/05/private-label-maturity-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From clothing to cereals, toothpaste to televisions, there is hardly a category that has not seen retailers trying their hand at creating own labelled products. So what does it take to go from a “copycat” to being a real brand? Here's a model that might be useful to structure that effort.
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		<title>Numbers and Stories</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/11/23/numbers-and-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently a letter to the editor of the National Observer (London) as far back as 1891 complained: “there are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third and most aggravated is statistics.” (Mark Twain famously paraphrased this in his autobiography as “lies, damned lies and statistics”.) Here is my definition of research and its output, and how it can be useful...]]></description>
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		<title>Retreating Retailers, Crumbling BRICs?</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/10/23/retreating-retailers-crumbling-brics/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/10/23/retreating-retailers-crumbling-brics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the sourcing-end, large retailers have been comfortably operating beyond international borders for several decades even while the stores-end of their business was entirely domestic. It took the opening up of East European economies in the 1990s to really prime the pump for growth of international retail expansion. Are we seeing the reversal of retail globalization?]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Truth – Facts and Interpretations</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/08/18/organic-truth-%e2%80%93-facts-and-interpretations/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/08/18/organic-truth-%e2%80%93-facts-and-interpretations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate on organic food has just got messier. A study sponsored by Britain’s Food Standards Agency (July 2009) really set the cat among the pigeons. The report's conclusion was that the studies reviewed did not provide enough evidence that organic food is more nutritious. (More...)]]></description>
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		<title>Fractal Branding &#8211; Voice or Noise?</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/07/16/fractal-branding-voice-or-noise/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/07/16/fractal-branding-voice-or-noise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The grocery market is loud. Margins are generally thin on these frequent-use products and inventories need to move fast. And what you don’t make a noise about may not be visible to the customer and may remain unsold. But if that was the whole story, most players should be focussing on one brand, or at most a few brands, and should be using their advertising budgets to maximum effect on these. Instead we see exactly the reverse phenomenon in the market...(More)]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution, Process and Decay</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/06/18/evolution-process-and-decay/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/06/18/evolution-process-and-decay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adaptations are happening because of the changes in the environment. Managers need to critically question: does this change meet a current ongoing need or provide an ongoing advantage, and can it apply to the rest of the business? (More...)]]></description>
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		<title>Exuberance and Despair</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/02/13/exuberance-and-despair/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/02/13/exuberance-and-despair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How can retail businesses be showing a decline in their top-lines? And is there a way out?]]></description>
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