{"id":23826,"date":"2013-03-05T21:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=23826"},"modified":"2013-03-05T21:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:21:58","slug":"how-has-parle-g-managed-to-keep-their-price-so-low-despite-the-steep-inflation-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/03\/how-has-parle-g-managed-to-keep-their-price-so-low-despite-the-steep-inflation-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How has Parle-G managed to keep their price so low despite the steep inflation in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If you have grown up in India in the last 40 years, the chances are that one of your favorite snacks is the Parle-G.\u00a0 But the prices of Parle-G have remained pretty stable all these years.\u00a0 It is cheap and still has the same taste as it had when I was 5 years old.\u00a0 It was my favorite then.. its my favorite now.\u00a0 Here is now it has maintained its pricing so low.<br>\n<span class=\"quora-content-embed\">Read <a class=\"quora-content-link decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Biscuits\/How-has-Parle-G-managed-to-keep-their-price-fixed-for-over-a-decade-despite-the-steep-inflation-in-India\/answer\/Sneha-Prasad\/quote\/329338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quote of Sneha Prasad\u2019s answer to Biscuits: How has Parle-G managed to keep their price fixed for over a decade despite the steep inflation in India?<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quora<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a decorated-link\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none;float: right\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=b7a99ed8-3d3f-4bc4-928c-2ae5028fd9b5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have grown up in India in the last 40 years, the chances are that one of your favorite snacks is the Parle-G.\u00a0 But the prices of Parle-G have remained pretty stable all these years.\u00a0 It is cheap and still has the same taste as it had when I was 5 years old.\u00a0 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":23827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4888,1426,4872,2622,2623,3556],"class_list":["post-23826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-asia","tag-government","tag-india","tag-parle","tag-parle-g","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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