Saturday, May 9, 2009

Special Thanks

Whoever sees this on May 9th 2009 or later, history remains unchanged. The passion and commitment that went into creating a sustainable Corporate Retail model has its players and witness’s!

I sincerely thank everyone who responded to this emotional call to celebrate and reaffirm what we have done and achieved. Special thanks to Mr. Sundaram, who provided almost all the pictures you all saw and enjoyed!

I enjoyed putting this together. Thanks to everyone, once again!
Posted by VR at 1:19 AM
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1 comments:

Ganesh Chella said...

Dear Rajesh

This is a great itiative and my best compliments for doing this!

I continue to get nostalgic every time I think about my days at RPG Retail. Hiring all you guys at 30% less pay than what you last earned which was in any case very low, seeing the excitement with which all of you worked because you were creating history and not because you wanted to make money, working in the store, solving the innumerable problems for which we had to write rules every day and creating new knowledge which to date remains the only knowledge in organised retaling. We may not have become the biggest and in any case those things seem irrelevant today. But we created a legacy, a great bunch of Retail professionals who knew what they were doing and were deeply passionate about it and who remain the only blue blood retailers to date.

I cannot forget my first day at the R A Puram store. We ran out of sugar and atta by 11.00 am. Raghunandan and I went to our distribution centre (sorry, warehouse, sorry, godowm) to pick up some replacement supplies and rush back in our car!!!

I cannot forget all the great one liners - "bay watching", "gave Rs 10 for 9" (description in a petty cash voucher)and all the other hilarious events that unfolded every day.

I cannot foget all the training programs we conducted in premises amidst construction, I of course cannot forget RIRM, the institution which created the finest front-line staff that India has ever seen.

Let us celebrate thsi spirit and be proud of what we created!

Ganesh Chella

May 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM

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