The Indian retail sector has its own uniqueness and the country is one of the most exciting markets worldwide that is poised to grow to over a trillion dollars by 2025, according to Walmart Inc. president and CEO Doug McMillon.
Addressing the Converge@Walmart event, McMillon said that given the diversity of the Indian market, the company has to "think local and execute locally". "India is such a diverse market, it's not one country in some ways and so we have to think local and execute locally, and it has its own rules, and so, we've got to comply with those rules," he said. McMillon added that currently, Walmart is not permitted to make an FDI in multibrand retail and so, the company operates in a different way.
"I do think we have seen and will see generation skipping in India, which will be exciting and some of that learnings, we will bring back to other markets that we have," he said. The top executive highlighted that India is one of the top three markets, along with the US and China. The Converge@Walmart event is the flagship event of Walmart Global Tech India. "We think the future is very bright, and we are going to see a market that is North of trillion USD by 2025, I believe. And the way that it is evolving is common in some ways with what we see in other countries, but has its own uniqueness, which makes it exciting," McMillon said.
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