Do care for us , we are after all customers/consumers.

This week kurbaan a hinid movie staring Saif and Kareena released.

Myself and a classmate of mine happen to be there watching the movie.

And I stood in the qeue to get the tickets. The ticket counter for balacony was a mess.

The humidity was immense since it was raining. There were no ceiling fans either.

We stood in the line as long as the lazy ticket issuers comes to the counter and issue tickets.

Sometimes we forget the smallest of the things. Don't pamper us but do take care of us.

Other time we were in theatre and in the middle of the moving the a/c is switched off.

That is annoying.

If the service providers will not care for customers who will.

Please don't blame piracy or bad films if the theatre does poor business.

Chance Pa Dance. Best of Discounts.

Recently we happen to be in Big Bazaar. Big Bazaar seems to have become an "Adda" to few of us.
Once in a while we make a point to drop in. Buy atleast something. For me buying black grapes as become a sort of ritual.

 As ususal lot of schemes to lure the customers. There were books at good discounts.
60% off is really cool.

 There were dictionaries, word power, some fiction, social intelligence by Daniel Goleman a copy which I have.I settled for "It happened in India by Kishore Biyani" .

Folks we got to look out for discounts and schemes to get the max value of every single penny we spend.

Do Check your Bills.

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I happen to be in BigBazar, TVM and I purchased a Jeans which had discount.I knew how much the bill would be . When I saw the bill , I was charged theMRP.Though got the refund smoothly. There were no issues. Usually I nevercheck my bills. I did check this time around. Guys do check your bills and so will I, if you do, thats great . I saved Rs 200.

Power of Rs 5

I recently notice the power of Rs 5.

ITC came out with Rs 5 packet of Bingo [wafers] and Sunfeast [Biscuits].

Parel did come out the pack of frooti for same prize.

Parel did even come out with a packet of biscuits i.e., parel G for Rs 1.

Currently talk time is available in the least denomination of Rs 10.

I am curious to know when will the telecom companies be smitten by  power of  Rs 5.

Now Lays is also available in Rs 5 .

Possibly the companies are trying to understand the spending pattern. And capitalizing on it.

May be people don't mind spending Rs 5.

Little hearts, 5 star, all are available for Rs 5. That's amazing.

KOUTONS

I have never purchased my clothes a few months back.

I happen to visit a koutons showroom in cochin.

I have loved their shirts and their pricing is what the talk should be about.

Koutons is a discount format store.

i.When I bought shirts the scheme was take four shirts and pay for the hightest.

A shirt cost me Rs 500/-

ii Then I happen to purchase half sleves shirt 80% flat discount.

iii  Koutons recently opened a family store in Trivandrum as well . On opening they gave a flat 80% discount

iv On Diwali they gave a 50% + 49% discount.

The collection is cool. Do check out for yourself. This is word of mouth.

I am in love their linen collectoin. 

There is loot on the same fomrat but they do seconds. There is cottion county , I have not a chance to visit their stores.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linen

And Now MTS follows.

                                                                                                                                                                                     In the last blog I did mention about the pricing strategy of Tata Docomo. And now another operator is following Docomo , this time it is the MTS. A paise for a second. Interesting. To me this race is like two jealous sister-in-laws. So Whats Next! Yeap the value addition is always a distinct feature the service providers are looking at and once the 3G spectrum is available for private players that will be fun for customers. Newer players are getting ready to get there piece of pie called "India" as well. So lets wait and watch .

"Tata Docomo is Redefining the Pricing"

Tata Docomo is actually redefining the pricing in the telecommunicaiton sector.
It was always painful to talk for 30 seconds and be charged Re 1.50 /1 either for STD or Local calls. I read an article that people had to stand in qeues for hours in manglore to get an SIM of Docomo. Thank god we got it easily in Trivandrum. Yesterday i.e., 30/9/09 we received an sms and my friend was telling about the new scheme ,now 2 seconds will cost 1 paise by recharing for Rs 45. It was intresting to us and also a friend let us now that tata docomo is giving a free sim with talk time worth Rs 45 we did not hesitate to get a free SIM too. Today morning i.e., 1/10/09 my friend reading newspaper in Trivandrum bought to my notice another mobile operator called Aircle has come out with same tariff of 1 paise and the same scheme as docomo as mentioned above. Is it quite intresting that you are forced to change the price to retain the customer and lure newer customers. All I will say is Tata Docomo , Jai Ho! despite of poor coverage .The tag line " Do The New" Yeap at least I am doing something new calling up the guys through docomo and trying to revive the relationships specially who are in corporate world so they can give me some leads, suggestions ,advice and at least but not least may be a job too.