.As an NRI living in the Gulf, I sadly wdenor sometimes if the comforts that I enjoy here can ever be replicated in India. Having lived here all my life, I would at the risk of being villified, be first to say that democracy is not for all people.Here in the UAE where Ive lived all my life, when Carrefour first came in sometime in the 90s, some, not all, traders had to close down. These were mostly those who refused to employ good customer service, discounts in some form or the other and any other scheme that would enable the average consumer to buy more at less. I consider myself middle class so these things might not affect me a lot, but after the advent of the retail revolution in this region brought on by companies by Lulu (incidentally owned by a Keralite), Carrefour et al, it is the lower segment of the population, which is overwhelmingly from the Indian subcontinent, that has benefited most. BTW, fortuitously, your captcha reads SEZ8. I figure one way to keep the traders at bay would be to allow foreign retailers in SEZs or something on those lines. In our country however all of this is a cyclical process. The traders embolden the politicos who embolden the traders who embolden the politicos ad infinitum until the government relents and someone wins. I just wdenor who though.JJohn