Keyword

Recession, Strategies, Retail, Competition

Abstract

The retail market in India is facing slowdown with the ongoing financial crisis happening across the world markets. Since the markets always have internally linked with each other, the impact of the crisis is generally shared among all. The inflation or the economic slowdown is adversely affecting the retail industry. With the suddenly disturbed economical status, consumers are gradually losing interest on buying. And for the interested, the unbalanced income, followed by the economic slowdown, is not meeting their buying requirements. Recessions do offer a myriad of opportunities for those marketers who understand marketplace dynamics and who are willing to plan thoughtfully for recession survival, learn from the problems and then move on to prosperity.


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