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Surprisingly strong metrics alongside aggressive expansion mask a lurking balance-sheet risk. Moreover, competition is not going to be kind to the retail giant any time soon.
DMart operator Avenue Supermarts’ Q4 and full-year FY26 results, announced late on Saturday, were momentous in some sense.
The last quarter at India’s largest retailer was marked by heightened competition from quick-commerce platforms, resurgent offline competition, demand-supply volatility due to the Iran war and a key leadership transition. Amid all this, decent year-on-year growth in many key areas felt like petrichor after a long dry season.
Two things stand out. One, DMart has gone the whole hog in taking the fight to quick commerce, adding a record-high number of stores, now totalling 500. Two, the retailer has shown improved profitability …
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
The retailer has shrunk operations to fix its loss-making vertical. But a reduced presence risks hurting volumes in a segment dominated by Blinkit and Instamart.
Back-to-back strong quarters have reset expectations for the beauty and personal care company. Has the Mamaearth parent truly left its troubled past behind?
