According to a report in _The Economist_, over the next two years Reliance Industries is investing $2.2b in India to build 1,500 supermarkets and hypermarkets (selling food, clothes, and electronics) and 60 distribution centers, some with their own airstrips. They will employ on the order of half a million people. That’s 2.2 billion US dollars, equal to Rs100b. Over the next four years, they’re talking about 1,000 hypermarkets and 2,000 supermarkets.