This Week, I had a shopping experience at Nilgiris retail located at outer ring road Bangalore. I was lucky enough that I could park my car as there were only few parking lots provided by the vendor. I could smell the real Indian touch by seeing the variety of pickles arranged in western fashion. Store is arranged well but in some places my wife had to take advantage of my height to pick up the items which are not reachable by a person with average height. If you are interested to buy "Local" branded items in "papad" or "pickle", a lot of varieties are available here. If I recollect correctly, I could see almost 10-15....

...variety of papads to satisfy the taste buds of people from South and North Indian states. One unusual thing I observed here is that a security person wanders inside the store and peek into every customer for any unusual behavior which never experienced in any other stores. From Nilgiris point of view, it may be correct but from a customer point of view sometimes it may be really embracing.

Now, I reached the Fruits & Vegetables section. Even though entire store is arranged well, chaos starts here. The vegetables' or fruits' price is not displayed and you cannot choose your vegetables. All the vegetables are packed and most of the packets had rotten vegetables along with fresh vegetables. So you have to pay for these rotten vegetables tooL. There is only one weighing scale and two store assistants to weigh the vegetables and fruits you picked up.

Once you reach your bill counter, you realize that you need to collect the vegetable bill from the two assistants who weighed your vegetables. The person at the bill counter shouts at the store boy and the store boy, who would be busy with next customer, leaves the customer and starts taking our inventory again. As the customers behind you start murmuring, you pay and get out of the store only to realize that vegetable and fruits bill is not list itemized. So you never get a chance to know how much they charged for each fruit and vegetable and what is the weight of each vegetable packet since it is not displayed on the packet!

Overall my shopping experience was good as I entered the store around 10 AM as most of the Bangloreans were about to wake up on a Saturday morning.