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Digest this! Supermarket charges Rs 700 for Rs 25 soda
Updated On: 14 January, 2012 06:30 AM IST | | Akela
Next time you visit Food Bazaar, it would be a good idea to check your bill, otherwise you may suffer the same plight that Kaushal Purohit went through recently
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Next time you visit Food Bazaar, it would be a good idea to check your bill, otherwise you may suffer the same plight that Kaushal Purohit went through recently
For most inflation-hit Mumbaikars, weekly trips to local supermarkets are usually made with the intention of making the most of the discounts no matter how paltry offered on retail prices of groceries and food items.
But this attempt at thriftiness backfired lamentably for a 34-year-old engineer when he walked into the Food Bazaar at a mall in Tardeo, only to be charged Rs 1,400 for two bottles of Duke's ice cream soda. The retail price of each bottle is Rs 25.
The incident took place on New Year's Eve, when Nanachowk resident Kaushal Purohit visited SoBo Central mall to do some shopping for the year-ending festivities, along with his friend Munir Chagani. He purchased 60 items, of which two were bottles of Duke's ice cream soda. He was billed a total of Rs 8,334.
"We later checked the bill, and were shocked when we noticed how much we had been billed for the soda. The two bottles had cost us a total of Rs 1,400. But the MRP printed on the bottle indicated that they were to be sold for only Rs 25 each," said Purohit.
Retail nightmare
The debacle didn't end there. Purohit rushed back to the store and informed the salesman about the inflated rate at which he had been sold the soda.
For most inflation-hit Mumbaikars, weekly trips to local supermarkets are usually made with the intention of making the most of the discounts no matter how paltry offered on retail prices of groceries and food items.
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| The cash register shows Rs 700 when the salesman scans the barcode on the Duke's ice cream soda bottle. When Purohit went back to the store, he was told that the prices fixed in the computer database could not be changed |
But this attempt at thriftiness backfired lamentably for a 34-year-old engineer when he walked into the Food Bazaar at a mall in Tardeo, only to be charged Rs 1,400 for two bottles of Duke's ice cream soda. The retail price of each bottle is Rs 25.
The incident took place on New Year's Eve, when Nanachowk resident Kaushal Purohit visited SoBo Central mall to do some shopping for the year-ending festivities, along with his friend Munir Chagani. He purchased 60 items, of which two were bottles of Duke's ice cream soda. He was billed a total of Rs 8,334.
"We later checked the bill, and were shocked when we noticed how much we had been billed for the soda. The two bottles had cost us a total of Rs 1,400. But the MRP printed on the bottle indicated that they were to be sold for only Rs 25 each," said Purohit.
Retail nightmare
The debacle didn't end there. Purohit rushed back to the store and informed the salesman about the inflated rate at which he had been sold the soda.
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