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IJSREM68403
Volume:
10 |
10 |
Oct 2026
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1-2
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Monthly (12 issues per year)
License:International Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering and Management follows the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) License, allowing free use and distribution with proper attribution.
Department of International Business
Pondicherry University
In the past, when transport facilities were meagre or insufficient, people used to buy from shops on highways, roadsides and crowded village centres. Though this posed difficulties for the consumers, the unorganised sector could provide employment to various individuals and shopkeepers. Further, essential products needed to be purchased from different shops such as provision shops, clothing, utensils, household items, accessories, etc., with each shop specifically catering to the needs of the particular products for the consumers. This made the consumers plan to purchase on different days and at different times, as these shops were scattered across different towns and centres. With less sophisticated road infrastructure in rural India and low income from agriculture and other activities, shopping apparently creates difficulties. In contrast, the supermalls, departmental stores, hypermalls and retail chain stores that can be considered part of the organised sector have been in vogue for the past 3 decades.
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Of the three modes of purchase mentioned above, the traditional marketing, which involves individual shopkeepers, street vendors, petty shops, and kirana shops. Small shops have become casualties as more and more people are resorting to either organised retailing or e-commerce. The advantages of the un-organised sector or retailing are that they bring products that are fresh from the agricultural lands, which are devoid of any preservatives and also available at lower prices. But still, people prefer the other two modes of purchase due to a lack of time and expectations of a wider choice of products and brands. Many in the unorganised sector are shifting to other jobs due to the low income generated by this form of unorganised retailing.
Of the three modes of purchase mentioned above, the traditional marketing, which involves individual shopkeepers, street vendors, petty shops, and kirana shops. Small shops have become casualties as more and more people are resorting to either organised retailing or e-commerce. The advantages of the un-organised sector or retailing are that they bring products that are fresh from the agricultural lands, which are devoid of any preservatives and also available at lower prices. But still, people prefer the other two modes of purchase due to a lack of time and expectations of a wider choice of products and brands. Many in the unorganised sector are shifting to other jobs due to the low income generated by this form of unorganised retailing.
Publication Date
10/27/2026
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