RetailIntel — Indian retail moves

What moved in Indian retail, newest first: store openings, funding and deals, results, launches and pricing, leadership, strategy and regulation. Filter by brand, theme or kind of move. Each item: headline, the move in one figure, IST date, brands, a one-sentence read, the original outlet with its link, and the retailintel.in page to cite.

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    },
    "theme": {
      "description": "A theme slug: store-opening, leadership, omni-channel, footfall, retail-brand, retail-company.",
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    "limit": {
      "description": "How many moves (1–20, default 10).",
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      "maximum": 20
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The full RetailIntel read of one move in Indian retail: what happened, why it matters, what to watch next, key facts, the original outlet and link. Pass the slug or the retailintel.in/signal/… URL from another tool.

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One Indian retail brand at a glance: how many moves in the last 30 days against the 30 before, by kind (stores, deals, results…), cities of its store moves, brands it is reported with, and its latest moves with sources. Accepts a name or slug.

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    "brand": {
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      "description": "Brand name or slug, e.g. \"Tata Croma\", \"dmart\", \"Nykaa\""
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "brand"
  ],
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Competitors side by side: moves about each brand in the window against the window before, by kind, with each brand's latest moves and the biggest difference in one line. Without a key or on a free key: up to 5 brands over 7 days. Pro keys: up to 25 brands over 7, 30, 90 days.

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      "description": "Brand names or slugs, e.g. [\"Blinkit\", \"Zepto\", \"Swiggy Instamart\"]"
    },
    "days": {
      "description": "Window in days: 7, 30, 90 (default 7; 30 and 90 need Pro).",
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      "maximum": 9007199254740991
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RetailIntel's morning brief: the day's most widely reported moves in Indian retail, each with why it matters and what to watch, as sent by email at 07:30 IST. Pass brands and/or themes for the newest reports on just those.

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    "themes": {
      "description": "Theme slugs, e.g. [\"store-opening\"]",
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Store openings in one Indian city or shopping centre over the last 180 days, from the RetailIntel store-opening tracker: the lead, key numbers (openings, how many at a named mall, brand firsts, announced plans), openings by category (fashion, F&B, jewellery & watches…), the charts on the page as figures, brands opening in other cities but not this one (who a landlord could pitch), and the latest openings, each with its report. Pass a city ("Bengaluru") or a mall ("Phoenix Marketcity, Bengaluru"), or its retailintel.in/city/… or /mall/… URL.

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      "description": "A city or mall name or slug, e.g. \"Bengaluru\", \"Phoenix Marketcity Bengaluru\", \"dlf-promenade-delhi\""
    }
  },
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An Indian retail or consumer group at a glance (Tata, Reliance, Aditya Birla, Avenue Supermarts/DMart, Eternal, Walmart/Flipkart, HUL, ITC …): the verdict on its businesses' newest results season and how many more are due, the revenue-growth chart by business (structuredContent.chartHtml, each figure linked to its report), key numbers per business, what moved across the group, what to watch, and its businesses and brands. Pass a group name or key, a brand it owns ("Zudio" gives the Tata group), or its retailintel.in/group/… URL.

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      "description": "A group name or key, a brand it owns, or its URL, e.g. \"Tata\", \"reliance\", \"Zudio\", \"https://retailintel.in/group/eternal\""
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  },
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Senior hires, promotions and exits at Indian retail and consumer companies, from the RetailIntel leadership tracker (retailintel.in/people): the last 7 days' count against the 7 before, RetailIntel's written read for the reader's role, the moves that matter to that role, announced moves not yet in effect with why they matter, the latest moves with each one's report, and the most active companies over 90 days. Narrow by company (a name, brand slug or URL), sector (e.g. "FMCG", "Fashion", "Quick commerce") or lens: brand (brands and retailers, default), investor, supplier (suppliers and partners).

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    "company": {
      "description": "A company name or brand slug, e.g. \"Bata India\", \"pidilite-industries\"; only its moves",
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    "sector": {
      "description": "A sector, e.g. \"FMCG\", \"Fashion\", \"Beauty & wellness\", \"Quick commerce\", \"E-commerce & D2C\"",
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    },
    "lens": {
      "description": "Whose read: brand (default), investor or supplier",
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        "investor",
        "supplier"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "How many latest moves (1–20, default 10)",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 20
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Find Indian retail brands, themes and moves by name or words, e.g. "Croma", "quick commerce funding", "Trent Zudio stores". Returns JSON {results:[{id,title,url,text}]}; pass an id to fetch for the full read, or a brand to brand_profile.

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The full text of one result from search: a move (signal:<slug>), a brand (brand:<slug>) or a theme (theme:<slug>), or any retailintel.in signal/brand/theme URL. Returns JSON {id,title,text,url,metadata}.

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