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	<title>Third Eyesight &#187; FMCG</title>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COLUMN-Progressive Grocer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bharti]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabka Bazaar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spinach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tata]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/05/31/carrying-and-being-carried/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 07:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apparel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COLUMN-Progressive Grocer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Social Responsibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Footwear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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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>Pack it yourself &#8211; refill when you buy</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/02/16/pack-it-yourself-refill-when-you-buy/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2010/02/16/pack-it-yourself-refill-when-you-buy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Asda has devised a system for customers to buy fabric conditioner from a vending machine pumping liquid from the stockroom directly into a pouch. The project aims to cut costs and prices. A number of people were underwhelmed by the whole concept. I feel somewhat differently. [More...]]]></description>
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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>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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		<category><![CDATA[brand rationalization]]></category>
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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>Thoughts from the Recession</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/04/11/thoughts-from-the-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/04/11/thoughts-from-the-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What changes in consumer spending habits do you see as providing retailers and manufacturers with the most opportunity? Which habits do you think will stick around once the economy improves, and which won't? [More...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retailers vs Brands &#8211; the reactions</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/02/26/retailers-vs-brands-the-reactions/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/02/26/retailers-vs-brands-the-reactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reactions to a discussion referencing the recent battle between retailer Delhaize and FMCG company Unilever in at least one online poll seem to favour retailers, or equally blame both retailers and suppliers. Considering that the respondent universe comprised of professionals from retail companies, suppliers as well as service providers, this seems to be a surprising result. Or perhaps not? Do you think that brands are really not delivering a significant value to be able to command a premium over private label?]]></description>
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		<title>Retailers vs Brands &#8211; a sequel</title>
		<link>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/02/19/retailers-vs-brands-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/2009/02/19/retailers-vs-brands-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devangshu Dutta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thirdeyesight.in/blog/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The switch to private label is a worrying sign for branded suppliers who have invested humongous sums of money and decades of effort in developing their brands. But it also raises questions about whether the consumer is really perceiving any value out of the billions in advertising and millions of man-hours spent by the FMCG companies in developing the nth variation of toothpaste or detergent.]]></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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		<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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