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		<title>Musings on how a bad experience helps &#8211; 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m dead sure that every supplier worth his vegetables at Azadpur must have suffered at the hands of buyers, institutional or plain vanilla retailers, forwarders or sub wholesalers who simply don’t pay back in a a gentlemen&#8217;s way. Bounced cheques, reduced payments, payments in installments, delayed payments, post dated cheques or simply zero payments are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/musings-on-how-a-bad-experience-helps-1/</link>
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		<title>Ideas for fresh produce chain run by the poor for the poor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the age of supermarkets, traditional bazaars and street vendors are still major players in fruit and vegetable distribution if one considers quantities sold, distribution reach and employment. Yet supermarket numbers are increasing as a result of incentives that promote ideals of food safety and modernization, in stark contrast to their negative response to street [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/ideas-for-fresh-produce-chain-run-by-the-poor-for-the-poor/</link>
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		<title>In defence of middlemen &#8211; reverse thinking by a disintermediation expert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lets be fair to the middlemen and the agents. Had it not been these much maligned folks, every nook and corner of India would have been deprived of their daily dose of Pan (Beetle leaves). Considering very high perishability and low value of this product, thanks to middlemen, this product safely reaches all corners of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/in-defence-of-middlemen-reverse-thinking-by-a-disintermediation-expert/</link>
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		<title>Good Bye &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my school days in early 70s, I remember asking my English teacher one fine day what does ‘Good bye’ means. I vividly recall even now what Anita madam, my teacher told us.&#160; Good bye means – ‘God be with you’. I hope what she said is true as Good bye is what I want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/good-bye/</link>
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		<title>Using charity as a tool to achieve product standardization in fruit and vegetables in a country like India.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every fresh produce grade sells in India. But not usually separately but as a mixed grade which is a nightmare to marketers. I want to use charity as a tool to achieve product standardization in fruit and vegetables in India. Any ideas on how to go ahead to build up a commercial project around this. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/using-charity-as-a-tool-to-achieve-product-standardization-in-fruit-and-vegetables-in-a-country-like-india/</link>
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		<title>Fresh Retailer’s dilemma concludes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, you can stop the bleeding only when you know where to apply band-aid. With first step taken by capturing data on where all the category is bleeding, balm can be applied to target areas to bring the shrink down.
In corporations quite often it is not possible to even start the healing process without getting a sign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/fresh-retailer%e2%80%99s-dilemma-concludes/</link>
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		<title>Fresh retailer&#8217;s dilemma continues&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At its core, fresh retailer’s dilemma (read freshness / wastage predicament) is an inventory management issue.
But is it only a supply chain problem? What about impact of merchandising &#8211; their planograms, displays, promos and Store operations? What about procurement department which has to lift committed quantities oblivious of front end needs? What about logistics which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/fresh-retailers-dilemma-continues/</link>
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		<title>Fresh retailer&#8217;s dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some one has said&#8230;.. &#8216;The concept ‘fresh’ is in the limelight. One often asks, for example, what is considered fresh and what not. ‘Fresh’ is a multi-faceted concept. To the retailer, fresh is a product segment, while it actually also connotes quality. In logistics, fresh has a uniform message: a fresh product is perishable. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/business/fresh/</link>
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		<title>Sharing Mediocrity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does one handle situations at work place when one has to share mediocrity, an old time friend asked me over a drink one fine evening last week. Shall he suffer in silence, hit back or try to educate some incompetent nincompoops who are hell bent to have their say because of their being in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/sharing-mediocrity/</link>
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		<title>Memories don&#8217;t leave&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is strange one find value in those household items that one has not seen or used for ages only after one start searching for useless items and they become visible. Ironical, that you started your search only to find and throw unused items to retrieve some precious space.
Something of the sort happened with me too yesterday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anilchopra.com/personal/memories-dont-leave/</link>
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