Walmart in India Will Now be International

Oh, My!

How long until Costco shows up?

Just moving in and in very short time.

face look of city business bound to change now

I agree that the business face would change but is it for better or worse is the question.

It will also let many people from abroad to find reasonably easy job in India in somewhat familiar environment.

let us be frank, how many of the persons from abroad would come? How many came with Coke? pepsi? McDonalds? KFC? there are two questions - would they like to come most assuredly no. Why should they? Just for an example, my salary in USD comes out to be about $4,000 per month. I consider myself to be on the upper levels of the usual engineering industries (non software). But in US that is may be on middle group of management position. What you would expect those in walmart to be getting? Though it would be enough to stay in India, in relative luxury, but when they take it home what would be their worth?

This is the real reason of brain drain. From India to US. It is not the working condition or other things as it seems from your posts. You seem to be too much disenchanted with your country for whatever may be the reason. I too have travelled abroad usually EU contries (Except US of course where I am about to go within a few months for a week on an official trip to help a supplier to deliver to our quality requirement that are not being met). But their representatives have come when the items were rejected at our place and i din't find the difference that you hint in your previous posts.

I accept that we are bad, but not as thoroughly as you believe and in certain aspects we are better too. And that is not only my belief, but my observation too, and that could be corroborated by industries else why would they take the persons from India and employ? to spoil their work atmosphere?.

Now as far as Walmart is concerned or any other can you plese explain how would they generate employment? By encouraging to convert small badly managed village farms into larger farms? By GE crops _{(Which had been seen with doubt by all except human guinea-pigs?)} ? Your language had been exactly what our honourable ministers told while welcoming but is it true?

Every thing had pros and cons. Buying from a super market (better managed ones) Vs buing in a neighbour shop makes me lose a few percentage even though both sell below MRP printed. Which adds up substantially from my monthly bill. That though may be some $10 per month in USD but in INR it is substantial. In case you want, try the same quality Rice or Wheat from the supermarket chain you consider the best and then try it in a grocery shop and see. I will not take into consideration the vegetables.

I go to supermarkets to buy things that to be bought with plastic cards or something that is not available in local shops, but for others I prefer the local shops. Fortunately which are surviving despite the supermarkets because? Their sources are not dried up. With the flooding of the supermarkets the problem won't be their capacity to sell it would be their capacity to get the inputs which would be cornered by the powerful.

let us not go for what the politicians say but think it from a practical socio-cultural aspect. Adn as we say in our enginering industry- attack the root caus, since a machine is not giving the performance, don't declare it a waste, find the root cause and eliminate. It might as well be a simple hydraulicline supply problem.

I am anonymous since I like to be.

Organized warehousing and sale in larger scale is something that cities only can afford and people save their time in shopping. We have to see how they will look into requirements of Indians and as well that of our visitors from abroad.

All this is going to happen soon and both Indians and those will move business here will learn from each other.

Larger shopping complexes with most common items at one place are excellent for women as they don't have to travel to many places. Street shops still exit and they do their own kind of business.

Original Indian civilization is no longer sustainable and is not protected. Poverty exists by itself is only thing that looks like India in original shape. Small business was killed long ago by British as they wanted machine mabed product business in India. There is still lot that will remain as such in corners of India. In any way civilizations are not preserved for visitors, but they exist as long as they provide survival for locals.

Well, the shelves should stay full. The Chinese imports are right next door....................we have to get them by freighter.

It is much easier to question sub-standard items in larger business than the same being sold on road side. Once anything bad is questioned and found something wrong then there will be lock on the business very immediately and person dealing with may end up in jail.

There are already lots of stories about sub standard goods from China and also from India and other sources. Samples sure will reach our research labs and they will tell everything in public. Remember that cold drinks were found with detergents and pesticides. Indian market is not easy to be cheated in larger shops and when their number can be counted on fingers and locations well known.

Obviously good items from all countries will be welcomed. I think they will sell 50% local products.

It should be interesting. Dangerous or defecive items aren't allowed here either. Walmart is pretty well known for items that are low priced and adequate, but not necessarily high quality. I shop there all the time, since for me, adequate is usually good enough.

Right now 51 outlets are planned and among them 36 may start working in 2012 and another 15 after some delay and protests or those may also move into other cities.

Organized sale in India has greater chance as India population is high. Shops can be owned by small business people as well and of different brand names. In India people are not shopping mad and often shop for festival or purpose and are very much pocket and quality conscious. They have seen street prices and quality products and can look for what they need.

80% of India population is poor and most of them may never reach to these stores. 19.999% middle class living in cities for jobs will sure find place there. Remaining 0.001% are money grabbers Swiss Bank account holders and they do not shop in India and they prefer to fly abroad and do their shopping there as no one knows them there. They also have 80% of countries money in black. Perhaps they will invest their black money in India indirectly.

I think Walmart will provide jobs to 1 million people in India if they are set up as per plan. More immolated big shop will also come up. Idea percolates itself.

India will also affect the business in neighbouring countries and there is a much greater chance of interaction. Working class people near poverty level will find some hope as their products may get exposed at higher price than the street floor price.

But what will happen when Walmart opens in China? Will they stock their shelves with substandard products from some other country? Surely the Chinese will not stand for the products sold here in America.

India Government perhaps will go back on this decision in few days as there is country wide opposition against Walmart direct FDI by all opposition parties and ruling party alone can't run the country by force.

I think you meant to say "Surely the Chinese will not stand for the products they sell here in America"

I will not get started on the $hi* that is marketed and sold here with generic American sounding names only to buy it, get it home, and discover the product is garbage.

You make a very good point - GA

Thanks!

I was recently at a local Walmart when a busload of Chinese came in (from Chinatown, NY). I watched as most turned away and walked to Target in the next strip mall. I asked the bus driver what was going on and she told me that they will not buy the crap sold in Walmart. They will only buy some of the fresh veggies but very little else.

I guess a little inside information goes a long way.

When politicians are cheaper than crap Chinese goods then you will see Walmart in your Country. There are more problems and Walmart is a part of deliberate mismanagement for personal gain. Political parties get billion dollars and sure it does not come from middle class public but from large crap sellers with shining show and lots of advertisements.

In India a lot of political game plan is going on right now and ruling government has not take opposition or allies into confidence and brought this back door policy of Direct Foreign Investment into Walmart.

Picture is more clear now and soon scam will be visible to all.

In the US Walmart is simply a political target that is used to get voters excited about voting some political party line - nothing more.

The only reason Walmart is as big as it is today is that people, despite their rhetoric otherwise, place low price well before quality or national security every time.

There need to be ccheap material buyers to let them be success wit compromised quality.

In India it is somekind of follow up of World Trade agreement at the cost of local unorganized poor labor. Government will do nothing unless there is somekind of visible gain for taking such risks.

No politician is working and all are living on freely extracted money and finally they can't live without it as they no nothing else. Yu can sat darwin's theory of survival of fittest in politics is valid for politicians as well.

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