A Visit to a Super Bazaar

"God may the country and manmade the town."

The Super Bazaar is one of the most popular markets in Delhi because everything is available under one roof right from vegetables to garments to toiletry goods. I enjoy going to Super Bazaar to browse around for whatever I want.

The best thing about the Super Bazaar is that everything is placed in a very orderly manner. Things of the same kind are stacked together on shelves so that it is easy to locate and pick up whatever one wants. For example, all the toiletry goods like soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, and so on are stacked on shelves of one section of the bazaar. All the pulses and lentils are stacked in an orderly manner in polythene bags of different weights. For example, there are half kilogram packs and one-kilogram packs, each category stacked together. Again, confectionery items such as bread, buns, and eggs, etc. and kept together, and jam, cheese, squash, and juice tins and bottles are placed side by side. There is a separate counter for ready-made garments, children's clothes, purses, bags, medicines, and so on. Thus it is very easy for even a child of an illiterate person to buy things from here.

Another advantage of the arrangement is that as one goes through the rows of shelves one often spots things that one has forgotten to add to one's shopping list. Further, one spots any new item that might have come to the market.

The Super Bazaar authorities have provided trollies for those who buy a lot of items together. So one wheel the trolley through the rows of goods and keeps putting whatever one needs in the trolley. Then one goes to the cash counter and pays for everything.

This system of allowing the customer to pick up whatever he needs by himself, instead of it being handed out by the shopkeeper necessarily puts a lot of trust in the customer. It would be very easy for anyone to pocket small items. However, the faith of the authorities perhaps makes people honest enough to pay for whatever they pick up.

The Super Bazaar is a government undertaking run on a no loss no profit principle and therefore everything is very reasonably priced. Again the prices are fixed therefore there is no bargaining either. Yet again, one is also sure for getting genuine stuff. A lot of people, therefore, like to patronize the Super Bazaar

Thus, the Super Bazaar is a good effort of the government to provide the common man everything under one roof at a reasonable price. It is hoped that more such bazaars would be opened so that everyone has easy access to them.