Big Bazaar is a large Indian retail chain with over 200 stores across 90 cities. It is part of the Future Group owned by Kishore Biyani. Big Bazaar aims to provide customers with quality, choice, and convenience similar to mandis and melas at low prices. It offers over 200,000 stock-keeping units across categories like fashion, food, and home products. Big Bazaar uses pricing strategies like everyday low prices and promotional discounts to position itself as India's Walmart and attract customers.
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Big Bazaar is a retail chain part of Future Group, launched in 2001 in Kolkata with 214 stores by 2012, offering 200,000 SKUs and leading in food and grocery market share.
Big Bazaar stores are designed to mimic traditional markets while incorporating modern retail features, located in city centers and malls.
The product mix includes categories like Apparels, Food, Electronics, and Home Care, addressing diverse consumer needs.
Big Bazaar uses EDLP strategies, value pricing, psychological discounting, and bundling to attract customers and ensure savings on purchases.
Future Bazaar likely addresses upcoming business prospects for Big Bazaar, indicating potential growth strategies.
Big Bazaar
• Itis part of the future group owned by Mr. Kishore Biyani.
• Big Bazaar was launched in September, 2001 and opened its
first store in Kolkatta.
• As of Sept 2012 – 214 stores across 90 cities and towns in
India.
• They offer over 200,000 SKUs in a wide range of categories led
primarily by fashion and food products.
• Big Bazaar captures almost one-third share in food and
grocery products sold through modern retail in India.
3.
Big Bazaar Stores
•Customized to provide the feel of mandis and melas while
offering the modern retail features like Quality, Choice and
Convenience.
• Most Big Bazaar stores are multi-level and are located in
stand-alone buildings in city centers as well as within shopping
malls.
4.
Product Mix
APPARELS
OTHER
FOOD
SERVICES
FASHION & FARM
JEWELLERY PRODUCE
PRODUCT
HOME &
FURNITURE PERSONAL
CARE
CHILL
ELECTRONICS
STATION
CHILD CARE
& TOYS
Pricing Strategies
• BigBazaar is known as the “Indian Wal-Mart”. They also use
Every Day Low Pricing (EDLP) strategy.
• They promise the customers to save not on individual items
but on a basket of items.
• One important condition that drives EDLP pricing is the “Low
Price” image of the retailer in the consumer’s mind.
1. Value Pricing
Promotional pricing
Big bazaar promises its
consumers the lowest
available price without
• coupon clipping,
• waiting for discount
promotions,
• or comparison shopping
3. Time Pricing
•Time-based pricing is a special case of price
discrimination in which producers charge different
rates for a given good or service depending on the
time, day, month, and so on.
• Eg:
• Wednesday Bazaar
• Festive Season Pricing
• Special Offer Period
pricing
• Sabse Sasta Din
• School Time
• Seasonal Offers
12.
Differentiated time pricing
•Time pricing i.e. difference in rates based on peak and non
peak hours or days of shopping is also a one kind of pricing
strategy.
Other Pricing Strategies
•Buy more, save more
• Prices reduced on a combination
• Holding special discounts
• Highlighting the savings possible
• Introducing a new product
• Cashing in on sports events (ICC world cup Tshirts at Big
Bazaar)
• The Price Challenge Offer