When shopping in India, you will be sure to find many shops which will mention outside the store that they have a fix price, this simply means what ever price is written on their products that is the final price, and there will be no bargaining. The advantage of these kinds of shops is that you won’t ever be ripped off.
Tilak Nagar is a place in West Delhi which is the one stop place where you will find all your needs, from western dresses to traditional. From shoes to eating places, the place has it all. The market as a whole is quite big, with a large range of outlets, you will defiantly find more than 4 shops of a kind, which makes the choice even larger.
Sarojini Nagar Market which is also known as SN Market is one of the popular and best places to shop. The prices of the products are very reasonable and the quality is very good. You will never be disappointed with the products and they all last a long time. You will find all types of shops and stores there, from designer wear, to cosmetic stores to electrical stores. It’s your one stop shopping place.
What a lot of people don’t know or realise is that, where you shop has an impact on the pricing of the products. If you go shopping in Connaught Place, every item available there will be as double the price, the reason behind this because the area is full of tourists and mostly rich families live there. Where there are middle class families products will tend to be cheaper there too.
Although buying from street seller (rehri wala’s) may be easy, but they do tend to rip you off. It’s nice and easy to see that people come up to your door step to sell products such as vegetables or plants. But when asked about their prices they are much higher than going out and buying them you selves. And the other problem is that people who sell their products are able to tell whether a person is rich or not just by looking at their house and immediately they increase the price on products. But on the other hand your happy to buy these products at a high price then there is no problem.
I remember the days when a twenty inch colour television used to cost more then Rs15000 about 15 years ago and now you can buy a colour television of same size and quality at about Rs5000, may be a bit less if you go looking for it in a few shops.
I am not sure if its a surge in production which brought the prices down or reduction in production costs but whatever it be its all good as poor people in India can also afford one now.
I am really looking farward to the days when every house hold in India will have a computer and an internet connection.