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Feast brings respite from odd routines

  On an important occasion, I had the great opportunity to attend a feast arranged at a posh hotel in our famous city of Kanpur's famous Jajmau area. Various delicious items were arranged on the stylish table. The guests were really free to choose what they liked to consume. There was a considerable rush but not in any way uncontrollable when I entered the grand air conditioning space. Soon, the humble host emerged, and we liked to embrace each other as human decency permits us to do. I did not lose much time sharing a light joke. I briefed him that I saw you standing from just outside, but you were out of sight the moment I entered the hall.  He, in his usual manner, did not pause to say how a man so fat could not be viewed from quite a short distance. Thus we laughed to the full heartily. Among various dishes, there was also the regular Biryani. How would it be neglected owing to its wide acceptability? When it was available to the guests, they certainly had to savour it exp...

Do street shops compete with malls?




Is there something we want to distinguish over the inflationary days? Retailers are at ease making profits despite the presence of well-furnished malls at every nook and corner. This is close to reality. 

However, malls try to attract better customers by offering them online discounts. Comparatively, the old-styled street shops do not look disheartened in running their business. They are supposed to bring or gain satisfactory profits pursued by whatever sales occur in a day. 

Upon asking the cunning shopkeepers we learn that their daily business goes far satisfactory despite the presence of well-furnished malls at all corners.

They are supposed to face competition so they try to maintain average margins and ultimately discover their retail business profitable to a satisfactory level. Here in Jajmau, the street shops conduct their business before the existence of the malls under the defined rules regarding retail sales.

They also meet the daily demands of the surrounding area consumers. This quality appears as the secret of their ongoing business. The difference can be easily noticed in the shop's retail business. 

Looking at the deal trends in the two shops, we realise that the retail shops in a particular area are correct for the retailers sell varied daily use items at a fixed price. Price differences draw the consumers' attention at first sight. 

This can be easily fathomed by approaching those retail shops individually. If one remains rigid on price the others exhibit some generosity in reducing the prices. It is a simple principle for running a retail business. This does not vary from bulk trading in the market. 

It is those spiralling middle-of-the-day sellers' feeling to improve retail sales, and as a result, they remain more stressed about improving the business profitability. 

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