shiv sastry wrote [at 02:42 PM 8/10/2007] :
MRP is Maximum Retail Price isn't it? Anyone selling above MRP can be
(theoretically) brought to book.
They are welcome to sell well below MRP.
Exactly. By way of contrast, the below ruling sounds MUCH more
customer-unfriendly. It sounds like a
On 8/10/2007 7:43 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
And then there is government subsidy - I've bought goods well below
MRP in remote parts of Sikkim.
There's parts of sikkim where the preferred currency is bottles of army
canteen rum ..
On 8/10/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
MRP. Like if you go upto Ilaka from Dharamshala, the guy sells Parle G for
about two rupees above the MRP, and you don't really mind it. The only way
to get stuff up there is on donkeys - trekking for five to six hours. (This
was six
It is quite possible that the one store I saw is the exception and I must
mention that I went there only twice. But there was no way I was going to shop
there, given the fact that there are 2 good produce stands within a mile of my
parents' house. In addition to these are the vegetable vendors
On 8/10/07, Vardhini Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...found produce from reliance etc to be really really lacking in quality.
That's something I haven't heard. And given their investment at the
back-end, from what I've heard and seen, I'm *very* surprised.
My bad. I meant, do you think a Maximum Retail Price is a good idea?
Or one whose time has passed? Ought retailer be free to fix the
maximum and minimum price according to market topography and
independent of the price it pays the manufacturer for said product?
Sometimes when I am off in
On 8/10/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sriram Karra [10/08/07 13:58 +0530]:
Yes indeed; but it is not a feature of the Kirana format - the small
time fellows in my neighbourhood stick to MRP, for e.g.
There are one or two shops that are mainly wholesaler types who do most
On 8/10/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sriram Karra wrote [at 01:39 PM 8/10/2007] :
I am surprised he did not mention branded FMCG at discount to MRP.
-something that even local kirana guy does not give.
I thought that Deepa and others in this thread mentioned that their
Sriram Karra wrote [at 01:39 PM 8/10/2007] :
I am surprised he did not mention branded FMCG at discount to MRP.
-something that even local kirana guy does not give.
I thought that Deepa and others in this thread mentioned that their
kirana guy *does* do this?
Udhay
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On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 09:47 +0100, B. L. Krieger wrote:
i guess you are right here. france for instance made a deliberate choice
after the second world war to recruit women to the labout force, whereas
germany decided for an immigration policy. however whether there is a
correlation is not
On 8/10/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 09-Aug-07, at 11:27 PM, Sriram Karra wrote:
On a related note, what exactly do you think is the reason for the
success of Subhiksha?
Stores located off the main roads, in unassuming residential areas
where the rents are lower. A
MRP is Maximum Retail Price isn't it? Anyone selling above MRP can be
(theoretically) brought to book.
They are welcome to sell well below MRP.
shiv
On Friday 10 Aug 2007 1:57 pm, Gautam John wrote:
On 8/10/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MRP.
Speaking of MRP, what do you
Sriram Karra [10/08/07 13:58 +0530]:
Yes indeed; but it is not a feature of the Kirana format - the small
time fellows in my neighbourhood stick to MRP, for e.g.
There are one or two shops that are mainly wholesaler types who do most of
their business cash on delivery. And when people buy a
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:00 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Notice that France largely profits from high birth rate in the black
this sounds like the mythical nonsense of neo-con eurabia. while france
does not collect figures on race and religion, assuming a 10% non-white
population [1], and assuming
On 8/10/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
There's parts of sikkim where the preferred currency is bottles of army
canteen rum ..
Heh... this even applies to Indian Railways TT inspectors... if you want to
bump yourself
up the waiting-list
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6939757.stm
World shares fall on credit fears
Stock indexes have fallen sharply again on Friday, a day after markets
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Billions of dollars were wiped off share values, affecting
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 13:24 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Already 50-year olds are virtually unemployable in the modern
economy, while the official retirement age has been bumped up
to 67 years. It will be 70 soon, so how do you feed a large
fraction of your populace clothed, fed, and in good
On Friday 10 Aug 2007 3:49 pm, Gautam John wrote:
Ought retailer be free to fix the
maximum and minimum price according to market topography and
independent of the price it pays the manufacturer for said product?
I think the idea here is to prevent rampant profiteering by stating a maximum
On Friday 10 Aug 2007 5:42 pm, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I have
several small shops here that sell at MRP, and equally, several
buy'n'save (that is the generic term) shops which sell below MRP. I
am not able to find a factor which will explain what makes the shop
follow one particular path.
The MRP
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Fresh is a misnomer in its name Reliance Fresh. I have seen cut, partly
smashed and near rotting bell peppers (the red and yellow ones, which are
displayed in the front shelves of the outlet), greens dried out and nowhere
near fresh. This is a regular scene in a couple of their outlets in South
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