With such a large population and the seventh largest economy in the world, why does India not have large supermarkets?

India remains the world's second most populous country and is expected to become the world's most populous country in the next one or two years. Although the country's economic industry cannot be compared with China's, it is also relatively diversified, covering agriculture, handicrafts, textile industry and service industry. It also gives itself a very vivid positioning. Incredible India. In fact, India gives the impression that it is an incredible country, with advanced and backward, science and superstition, philosophy and paranoia, order and chaos, rule of law and despotism, honesty and fraud, patience and resistance, sympathy and shooting. intertwined.

Online legends about India are always about "incredible" behavior. There are true and false legends, many of which are Chinese after-dinner jokes. For example, Indians highly praise cows, such as their unique eating habits, and the legend of people hanging on trains. But it is also because of its "incredibility" that India has become a unique destination that attracts tourists from all over the world for travel and adventure. In addition, India has many world cultural heritage sites, making it a country with a very developed tourism industry. The most incredible thing, however, is that in a country with such a large population and such a large tourism industry, there are very few large supermarkets.

As a member of the WTO, India is relatively open in other aspects, but it has adopted a relatively closed strategy towards the retail industry and almost does not allow foreign retailers to invest in opening stores in India. India's policy is to protect local retailers, but this also makes local retailers grown in greenhouses uncompetitive. Foreign tourists also have a very poor daily shopping experience in India.

Throughout India, retail trade is mainly based on small shops. Even in the capital New Delhi, there are few large supermarkets. As many visitors to India have seen, hawker stalls have covered the entire shopping chain. Only a few chain supermarkets are located in large shopping malls, which are considered one of the most luxurious shopping places. No real supermarket has entered Indian life.

Carrefour, the world's retail giant, is a pioneer in hypermarkets and has strong competitiveness in all countries. Once it has a monopoly in many countries, it will deter other supermarket chain brands. There are no large supermarket chains, because the streets are crowded and narrow, and there are no uniformly managed retail stores. It is difficult for people to think that India today is a modern country, even though its economy is developing so rapidly.

However, in recent years, India has also been trying to relax restrictions on foreign investment in the Indian retail industry. Indian companies are also expected to learn from the business philosophy and business models of foreign-funded companies to develop their own supermarket chains. Without supermarkets, Indians do not feel any obstacles in their lives. However, once supermarkets are established nationwide in the future, the social environment of the entire India will undergo some changes and will not be as chaotic as it is today. However, the development of supermarkets in India seems to still have a long way to go.