As usual I was visiting every random shop in that area. This super market didn’t seem any different. The salesman was in a hurry to take order and leave the store and the owner desperate to strike a conversation.
Please give only minimum quantities; there is no space for the existing stock. And moreover these people keep stealing stuff from the super market. You watch one shelf and stuff disappears from the other shelf. These women, they take the tubes and leave these outer boxes.
I’m not from the city Sir, I’m not able to adjust here. It has been about a year but still I’m not able to adjust. It was not like this in my village, I used to eat thrice a day and still be fit. Here I can’t digest if I eat once, people in villages work a lot and eat a lot. You city people don’t work and so you can’t digest. The food is also not nutritive. Back in our village, whenever I wanted to drink coconut water, I used to climb up the tree and drink it fresh from the tree, throughout the year.
And women, they don’t roam around like this. They hardly get to go out twice a year to buy some clothes, the rest of the year they have to keep themselves occupied with the TV. But here these girls come with their boyfriends and the boy would be looking at something and within that time, the girl would eat up Rs.100/- chocolate. My heart cries out in anguish to see such waste of money. And they buy thousands of worth cosmetics, one cream for hand, one for leg, they even have brushes to wash their legs. There in the village girls are always protected and here once the girl comes out of the house and ties that scarf not even her mother can recognize her.
In this city, the kids also have hundreds of rupees of pocket money and buy all kinds of useless chocolates, if I’m at the counter I never sell chocolates to kids, it’s such a waste of money. These parents have one or two kids and so they go “my son/ my daughter asked it…I will buy” and waste money. Back in the village we never bought anything almost everything grew in our back yard.
I’m not able to adjust here Sir. In our village only the baniyas did business, whenever I go back home people in the village laugh at me for starting a business.
After this long monologue we said we were getting late and sneaked out.
It is difficult for this super market to sustain, said the salesman.
