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Shops like magician’s hat

There's a shop nearby. Lucky Stores. It stocks children's school-related stuff, bags, toys and stationery. A small shop in area but when you enter you almost feel like you'll get what you want.

There's another shop in Andheri. Alfa. Extremely popular for mobile phones. Again, very small in area but filled to the brim with mobile phones and related accessories. Ask for any model of any recognised mobile phone brand and you'll find it. About 10 odd people behind the counters and bet if you find any of them free in the evenings. There's a commotion inside; so many people walking in, walking out. You know you'll have to brush everyone in the path to make your way and yet you love the experience.

Small shops don't always make for great places to shop. But when focused and filled to the brim, they are nothing less than a magician's hat. The first time you'd visit you mightn't be able to locate everything you want in the display. But the moment you name it, the stuff's presented to you and you feel like 'Wow!'

Besides, small shops when stocked adequately seem as if offering great variety. And there's nothing better than variety for an avid shopper.

2 responses to “Shops like magician’s hat”

  1. Tushar Jambhekar- tujams Avatar
    Tushar Jambhekar- tujams

    A very pertinant fact, a small shop can be more like a magician hat- able to match up to any type of demand.
    Just to illustrate what a guy close to my house has in his spread. The locations is his biggest asset. Right opposite to Sion Hospital, opposite the ST bus stand, adjecent to the Sion hospital doctors and staff colony. His space, about 200 sq ft and the space outside on the footpath. Operation hours; 7 am to 10 pm. Closes on sunday at 1 pm. And what can he stock- all you can possibly ask for.
    For students, he has stationary, Lab aprons, CDs, DVDs, pen drives- even stethoscopes- most of all- a Copier machine
    For ST Travellers, packed foods in all possible sku’s (he actually does the bulk breakdown) water bottles, caps, candies, cold drinks, ice creams, 2 STD booths, 4 coin boxes
    For Local residents, All toiletaries, deoderants, buckets, brooms, ropes, toys. If that was just ok, he even keeps postal stamps and envelopes at a small premium.
    Need less to say; his one small counter space is dedicated to what’s he hot item for the season- so Holi colous and spray guns, Umbrella’s, Rakhi’s, greeting cards, Flags and badges add to the galore.
    The guy is so enterprising that his counters of 3 feet usually rise over by another just by stocks he has. Not surprisingly , even the local election officer had kept registration forms to be distributed and collected outside his shop this year.

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  2. Ninad Avatar
    Ninad

    There are two types of shoppers in us. One is a kid, the other is an adult. The kid wants more, he wants commotion(of the enjoyable kind and not of the ‘queue’ kind in modern retail), he wants surprise. The adult wants to shop thinking he’s building a home, a family, he wants to feel that he’s arrived in life. There are no thoughts of arriving or going anywhere when a kid shops. These small shops have sustained their businesses by keeping the kids in us alive.

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