Saturday, November 29, 2003

disgusting discounts!
I happened to pass through a shopping mall named 'Ebony' in nungambakkam, a funny shopping area in chennai where you get nothing but the area as such has such a lot of hype. I just can't understand the mindset of people in chennai. they are behind things which are not of any use to them actually. okay, coming back to my point, the entire area is cutely decorated with big malls and plazas. probably you would have heard of/visited some of them - ispahani centre, ebony(not now!) and much more. haven't you? as this particular shop ebony was running a terrible loss, they had announced a clearance sale with more than fifty percent discount long back, probably a year ago. My aunt and I who are real, big shopping buffs set out one fine day to Ebony. we had nothing specific to shop but just went for the sake of it! After doing an advanced search throughout the shop,we finally landed up at the hairclips section. just picked up some cute clips, about 10 of them. and expecting a discount of more than 50% we came to the billing counter. We had the shock of our life there, with the bill amount being 2000! when asked the person in the billing counter cooly answered that hairclips don't carry any discount. the section which carried the discount was in the corner of the shop filled with dirty rags! had to pay the bill amount finally. the worst part was after we returned home and were fired by my mom and granny. Felt really bad and learnt a good lesson. I don't know why they resort to such cheap marketing techniques! I would just be reminded of that incident whenever I pass through that road and I can just laugh at our foolishness.any discount offered anywhere today is just an eyewash.I've literally stopped shopping during these discount era...

Posted by sree at 8:02:00 pm
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