flipkart-walmart deal is a sad sign
Instead, Indian bureaucrats remain too short-sighted, too statist and too distrustful of foreign companies to allow such a thing. So we’ll have to settle for a distant second-best when it comes to Walmart's India operations. This deal isn’t a sign that India’s leapfrogging past big-box stores to some digital retail utopia. It’s yet another indictment of Indian politicians’ limited vision. more