This republic day we decided to shop at big bazaar for our regular grocery stuff completely unaware of what’s going on there? The big bazaar was celebrating 4 days of saving offer and 26th was the last day. The crowd at Big Bazaar can easily beat the Haridwar kumbh . People were flowing like water. The fear started to flow into our nerves as soon as we enter into Bazaar. There was no cart to place the stuff and buckets are always difficult to carry. Somehow we manage to arrange 2 bucket which could be utilized for our shopping. People were nudging each other and making their way. There was definite need of traffic policemen to control the human traffic. The situation was ideal for stampede and a single announcement of free stuff could have made it possible.
After buying couple of stuff we have decided to keep our buckets in a place and then bring other stuff to it instead of carrying it, as carrying them was more difficult than scoring a century in Perth. Someone also need to stand near it as there was also scarcity of bucket and the most expensive part is, in case it is hijacked then you need to again shop for things, which was next to impossible. As I was standing near our shopping buckets I got enough time to analyze different consumers. As Jan 26 was national holiday people have decided to bring whole family to Big Bazaar shopping because it was economical than taking them to other places. First time I realized that kids are no more over head to any trip and they could bring delight to your shopping. The parents have asked them to explore different items kept across the aisle and inform them. The kids were acting as spy in getting all the info and their movement were so swift (due to their size) that having more kids turned out to be the boon. The vitality of this information can be understood by the fact that a big bazaar worker asked me “Where is the Horlicks sir?”. Standing beside the chocolate shelf and as a responsible person I was arranging them as soon as a small nudge from deluge of persons made them fall. It kept me busy till the time my friend came after discovering Vim bar. Suddenly I heard the election campaign with loud speaker. I was surprise to know that Noida is still having some election pending. Soon I realized that this campaign is for shirt which was available at 999 for 3. A man was leading the campaign with a mic followed by person with placard describing the offer.
Another surprising fact was that the most common item bought was packets of aluminum foil. My sarcastic brain thought that are so much food is still packed from home? Then I soothe myself acknowledging the fact that men have also learnt to cook.
The climax was still left, the billing counter. As we Indian always believe in jugaad, so how we could be left behind here. As we have not forget to keep handkerchief to reserve our places similarly ambassador were sent earlier to reserve the billing slot so that they can save time while billing. The stuff were billed and kept adding by their fellow. Some have objected and others were mute spectator, but I was smiling murmuring "Happy Republic Day".
I don’t know whether we got some good stuff or saved some rupees while shopping at this place but definitely I could not justify the 3hr time of 2 engineers for this shopping. We have definitely paid more price than debit card swipe.
