Princes to paupers: India's salesmen face ruin as tycoon Ambani targets mom-and-pop stores

SANGLI, India (Reuters) - For eight straight days, household goods salesman Vipresh Shah has failed to sell a single pack of Dettol soap to the storekeepers who have been buying from him ever since he took over his family business as a teenager, 14 years ago.

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