Exploring Vasna, Sabarmati and Motera areas of the city for opening the new stores

After being forced to shut down two of the five Big Bazaar stores in Ahmedabad, Kishore Biyani spearheaded Pantaloon Retail India Ltd, the company that runs the retail chain stores across the country, is planning to open three more stores in different areas of the city.

According to Anand Adukia, Zonal Manager, Big Bazaar, the company is exploring Vasna, Sabarmati and Motera areas of the city for opening its new stores.

“Moreover, we have decided to merge the Bapunagar unit with the Kankaria outlet, which will result in the expansion of the latter from 60,000 sq feet to 1.10 lakh sq feet,” said Adukia.

He said the Bapunagar store was shut down not because of any customer behaviour, but because the three year lease period of the property was over. In addition, the company is considering opening one more outlet in Surat, he said.

Meanwhile, Pantaloon Retail is planning to open 15 more outlets across the country by the end of November, thus taking the total number of Big

Bazaar stores to 112, including the one to be opened at Surat.

The other outlets will be opened at Mysore, Pune, Cuttack, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Agra, Faridabad, Nashik, Mumbai, Delhi and Solapur.