Set up stores on Internet auction sites, advertise your products on free online classifieds, and spread the word about your business via the myriad of social networking sites.
Another set up stores in barrios that carry basic foodstuffs and medicines at highly subsidized prices.
Companies like Benetton and Domino's that sell goods under a single brand or through franchisees had already been free to set up stores with Indian partners.
After years of debating the issue, Indian policy makers last month allowed big foreign chains like Wal-Mart and Tesco to set up stores in the country.
Nigel Keen, Waitrose's director of development, said the supermarket had received many letters from shoppers asking the company to set up stores in stations.
Much will depend on whether it can set up stores in the right locations, like CCD has done in airports and railway stations.
The panel, made up of journalists, an economist and a banker, discussed the controversy surrounding the Indian government's proposal to allow companies like Walmart to set up stores here.
Ikea, the Swedish furniture and home furnishings retailer that had previously said it wanted to set up stores here, said in an e-mail that it would "expect to present more information shortly about our intention to establish retail operations".
The chief executive of Ikea, the Swedish furniture and furnishing retailer that has long hoped to set up stores in India, publicly balked at the 30 percent requirement, saying it might force Ikea to table its India plans.
India's commerce minister, Anand Sharma, told reporters in New Delhi on Friday that foreign retailers that sell multiple brands of clothing could set up stores only in cities with more than one million people; there are 53 such cities in the country.
