Informal Retail – Page 4 – The Supply Chain Lab

Courting kirana stores – Tech giants and startups that are changing Indian retail

India’s grocery market is worth a sizeable $400 billion. But even with rapid retail growth, kirana or mom-and-pop stores remain

India’s Gully Network provides a tech-enabled platform for small groceries or kirana stores that takes care of the entire supply

Selpal connects informal traders to suppliers with a digital distribution platform and provides dealers with a point-of-sale device — enabling

South Africa’s Nomanini provides a retail point-of-sale device — allowing informal traders to sell digital goods such as electricity and

Shopit is changing the way wholesalers and micro-retailers are doing business in South Africa’s townships. The startup is digitising informal

Bukalapak, one of Indonesia’s most popular shopping apps, has been making an aggressive push towards micro-retailers. The company first started

Warung Pintar is on a mission to digitise street vendors and roadside kiosks. The Indonesian startup helps revamp their stores

Even with rapid online and modern retail growth, China still has 6 million mom-and-pop stores dominating the neighbourhood grocery market.

Shoprite is accelerating the roll-out of its Usave eKazi container stores in South African townships. The eKasi brand is Shoprite’s

With a population of 100 million and an outlet base of 400,000, servicing Egypt retail market is not an easy