Two for the Price of Three!

Shopping in India is always an experience, as my goddess partner has written about in earlier blogs.  However I’m not just talking about the local bazaar full of cheap cotton, brass and wooden artefacts, but that wonderful western influenced shopping experience – the supermarket.  Welcome to Big Bazaar, a national chain of retail stores, that I recently learned has a store layout model that reflects the local community.  Translation – it’s not standardised like Bunning’s and you’ll find pulses next to plastic buckets, because that makes sense ... at least in Udupi.

Shopping alone for domestic cleaner and soy milk, I find myself on Level 2 in the men’s clothing section.  Cheap shirts, polyester pants and packs of underwear.  The Bonds are getting a bit tired.  Maybe time to try the local product.  AFL brand has to be a winner, but no Swannies’ colours in the multi packs.  I’m assured 90cm in M, and they’re a bargain at three for Rs199; just about a dollar each.  At least they’re cotton and not made in China.

Out of the store and home to unpack the goodies.  Neatly arranged, there’s a distinct difference in the size of one pair.  Marked 90?  Yes, but smaller by heaps.  Squeeze into them.  Bits hanging loose everywhere.

Another bargain from Big Bazaar.  Undies, two for the price of three!