In Manipur shopkeepers decide for prices of stuffs after looking at your face and get up.
Thursday, 03 November 2011 16:33 Published in Current Affairs
In Manipur there is no price for anything, prices to be decided on the spot. What you have heard about prices on demand but not a thing called prices to be decided on the spot?! Wait yes there is such a thing in Manipur. Not only this, salesman fixes price after looking at your face and get up. Amazing isn’t it? For sample visit any shop in Imphal area and see. Rich, poor or whatever the state is, we buy stuffs in a way that nobody does. If the actual price of a particular shirt is five hundred rupees than the salesman will demand one thousand rupees. If a particular person does not have any idea about the cost of that shirt than, that person will be ready to pay around some eight hundred rupees after some bargaining. He will return home happily and will find out from someone that the cost of the shirt is only only five hundred rupees! Yes people will say ‘buy only fixed prized stuffs’, but here also something is lying under the ground. The people out there at those shops are so clever that they stick labels of prices at their whims.
Branded all new cool stuffs, Nike, Adidas, Levi’s, Reebok, and what not, people loved them. And who does not?! We in particular are very much. Sometimes we imitate other people like anything, we imitate from all over the world. And that’s the way it should be we like all cool life styles, be it western or Korean or our own fusion way. All is well, we say but the problem starts only when people started setting water to all our imitating way of life style. People try to make us look something like ‘made in China product’. Even though there are not many big showrooms in Imphal visit any so called showrooms in Imphal and check their branded stuffs. Their so called branded stuffs are all Chinese made. Jeans, shirts, slippers, shoes or anything, they mixed things like anything. Inside their glass framed showrooms everything looks cool, but at your home you feel for not only the hole at your pocket but also at your heart. People who does not have proper ideas about the price and quality of a product should not visit any shop! Visit only when you have enough to spend some thousands more bucks than the actual price in your pocket.
In Manipur, it is not very usual for people to care about such things, because it is a place where people are buying potato at 90 rupees per kilogram at times hurray! And don’t ask about the prices of patrol, diesel and LPG. Life goes on like this and it will be.
Coming back to our branded story or whatever it was, by now we have started developing a fusion style of our own, we are mixing really well, original plus whatever made put in, and we get a all new style of our own. We are doing really well! On a serious note we need to have proper price control mechanism. Not only about the above mention matters, in general hiking of prices at personal whims and fancies is a major problem in Manipur. Yes it may be because of some unavoidable situations at times but sometimes due to the conspiracy of some people prices are hiked skyward. People stocked goods and refuse to sell at proper prices and sells only when the prices have hiked unbelievably. Or they hike prices, when some festivals are knocking at the door.
Branded all new cool stuffs, Nike, Adidas, Levi’s, Reebok, and what not, people loved them. And who does not?! We in particular are very much. Sometimes we imitate other people like anything, we imitate from all over the world. And that’s the way it should be we like all cool life styles, be it western or Korean or our own fusion way. All is well, we say but the problem starts only when people started setting water to all our imitating way of life style. People try to make us look something like ‘made in China product’. Even though there are not many big showrooms in Imphal visit any so called showrooms in Imphal and check their branded stuffs. Their so called branded stuffs are all Chinese made. Jeans, shirts, slippers, shoes or anything, they mixed things like anything. Inside their glass framed showrooms everything looks cool, but at your home you feel for not only the hole at your pocket but also at your heart. People who does not have proper ideas about the price and quality of a product should not visit any shop! Visit only when you have enough to spend some thousands more bucks than the actual price in your pocket.
In Manipur, it is not very usual for people to care about such things, because it is a place where people are buying potato at 90 rupees per kilogram at times hurray! And don’t ask about the prices of patrol, diesel and LPG. Life goes on like this and it will be.
Coming back to our branded story or whatever it was, by now we have started developing a fusion style of our own, we are mixing really well, original plus whatever made put in, and we get a all new style of our own. We are doing really well! On a serious note we need to have proper price control mechanism. Not only about the above mention matters, in general hiking of prices at personal whims and fancies is a major problem in Manipur. Yes it may be because of some unavoidable situations at times but sometimes due to the conspiracy of some people prices are hiked skyward. People stocked goods and refuse to sell at proper prices and sells only when the prices have hiked unbelievably. Or they hike prices, when some festivals are knocking at the door.
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