Modern Food Retail in Dhaka

Abstract

The present and the following chapter present the empirical results of the examination of Dhaka’s food retail market under the influence of emerging supermarkets. Here, the first subchapter 9.1 portrays the first decade of modern food retail in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, and the country as a whole. Starting with a description of the impulses and drivers that finally led to the emergence of supermarkets, the subchapter further provides an overview of Dhaka’s supermarket landscape in the course of the modern food industry’s first decade, and modern food retailers’ retail strategies and lobbying activities. The second subchapter 9.2 then turns to hindering factors on both the supply and the demand side, which pose considerable challenges to the diffusion of supermarkets down to the present day. For each of these hindering factors, modern food retailers’ coping strategies will be depicted.