{"id":1533,"date":"2012-09-12T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2012-09-12T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T06:53:15","slug":"wal-mart-plans-to-open-3-5-retail-stores-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wal-mart-plans-to-open-3-5-retail-stores-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart plans to open 3-5 retail stores in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wal_mart_packaging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wal_mart_packaging-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wal_mart_packaging\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1534\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the partnership with Bharti Enterprise, US Wal-Mart stores prepares launch 3-5 cash and carry or wholesale joint stores by the end of the year, announced by a spokeswoman for the world&#8217;s largest retailer.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart currently operates 17 cash and carry stores, in India in joint venture with Bharti Enterprises, which owns India&#8217;s top mobile telecom operator Bharti Airtel.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ownership regulations in India do not allow global hypermarket and supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart Stores and Carrefour SA to open shops in the country. Instead, these companies are permitted to operate single-brand wholesale stores in association with Indian partners.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the severe conflict by the oppositions over the decision of the government to allow foreign retail chains to hold 51 per cent in India\u2019s multi-brand retail stores, the issue has been set aside since then.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart also plans to soar up the headcount at its unit, @WalmartLabs, in Bangalore to about 200 by end 2012 from 125 now, Jermey King, chief technical officer of Global e-Commerce, Walmart.com, told reporters in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The unit&#8217;s job is to help Wal-Mart capture more online sales from the proliferation of smartphones and social networking websites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the partnership with Bharti Enterprise, US Wal-Mart stores prepares launch 3-5 cash and carry or wholesale joint stores by the end of the year, announced by a spokeswoman for&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[787,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-retail-news","list-style-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}