ONLINE RETAILING MANAGEMENT

Book excerpt: 1.1 Introduction Traditionally, the Indian retail space has been dominated by unorganized retailers like Kirana stores, cloth merchants etc., who buy and resell merchandise from local suppliers or wholesalers. Most of today’s modern retail format that have been proliferating over the metros, cities and town were non existents twenty years ago. Pantaloon retail, Home town, Westside, Reliance trends, Spencer’s retail, Big Bazaar, Shoppers’ stop, Lifestyle were either small startup or non-existent twenty years back. Leading international retailers are heading towards India for setting up their stores. The internet has influenced organisation’s competitive strategic options and has actually transformed business concepts and practices forever. It offers many daily challenges. Retailer plays a significant role in economy, create value. The internet channel has fundamentally changed the way people shop. The internet had provided shoppers with multiple shopping channels. There are different types of retailers that satisfy same need and convenient experience. This business isn't static and is continually developing and evolving. They purchase straightforwardly from producers have stock sent to their stockrooms and the product to their stores. Retailers are progressively proficient at playing out the exercises that expansion the estimation of items and administrations for customers. These worth making exercises incorporate giving a collection of items and administrations, breaking mass, holding stock and offering types of assistance. Moreover, numerous retailers are engaged with planning inventive items and administrations. Retailers offer the assortment and arrangement of product requested. Assortment is the quantity of product classes a retailer offers. Arrangement is the quantity of various things offered in a product class. Assortment is alluded as the broadness of product and combination is alluded as profundity of product.