SuperK has a playbook for solving India’s small-town retail problem

Investors are betting on the value retail chain’s franchise model to disrupt the retail market in small-town India. By the looks of it, the six-year-old startup seems to have gotten a lot of things right.

17 August, 202512 min
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SuperK has a playbook for solving India’s small-town retail problem

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