Biyani's Future Retail merges stores to boost throughput

Firm has merged 69 shops of its electronics and durable chain Ezone into larger stores

Kishore Biyani’s Future Retail seems to be on a rationalisation drive. The company has merged 69 shops of its electronics and durable chain Ezone into larger stores such as Big Bazaar and Home Town in the last one year as it went about focusing on small stores and flagship Big Bazaar. At the same time, it opened 22 Big Bazaars and about 192 Easyday stores, Future Retails’ investor presentation showed.
 
Rajan Malhotra, president, retail strategy, Future Group, said the standalone stores of Ezone have remained the same. “Only the shop in shops has been merged with the mother stores. Now