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Harsh Jain

Position: Director, Pocket Stores, Surat
Categories: SPEAKERS 2026

Harsh Jain is the Director of Pocket Stores & Shopping Malls, an emerging, fast-growing neighborhood value supermarket chain heavily concentrated within Surat, Gujarat. Since its founding in 2022, the brand has scaled to 4 large-format neighborhood supermarkets strategically distributed across growing residential and commercial corridors in and around the Surat metropolitan area, with branches in Kamrej, Amroli, Varachha, and Kim.
Under his leadership, Pocket Stores operates as a multi-category value supermarket and departmental chain, pioneering a “hyper-local value anchor” model. The chain focuses heavily on delivering value, variety, and everyday affordability to families, leveraging high-volume sourcing and flat price markdowns below corporate MRP to capture routine budget shopping runs.

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