Banashankari III Stage was a huge tract of barren land just 12 years ago stretching as far “as the eye could see.” Connectivity nil. I vividly remember the long trek to my cousin’s house from the bus stop at what is now popular as “Deve Gowda petrol bunk.” The only other landmark was the Kamakhya “tent.” (tent=a hall showing cinema, usually found in villages)
Enter Outer Ring Road. Banashankari III Stage has transformed explosively: shopping complexes and malls of every shape and size dot that entire stretch. The enterprising owner of the Kamakhya “tent” must obviously have smelt the onset of fortune thanks to the ring road. He broke down the “tent” and turned the land on which it stood, into a huge shopping complex. Kamakhya is now a mini-theatre housed inside the complex.
BUT…. like most localities in Bangalore, Banashankari III Stage also suffers from congestion, slow traffic movement, pollution… Now there’s a new entrant to make matters even worse. Big Bazaar, which continues to rake in tons of money at its Koramangala outlet has opened another branch here.
We’d been there on Sunday: to get inside the mall entailed a wait of 20-30 minutes. The crowd.
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This outlet is far bigger than the one at Koramangala. The Big Bazaar guys have their mouth where the money is: the building here is not even fully constructed: metal spikes jutting out, loose wires floating around, bits of concrete hanging on the roof, along the ramp, and elsewhere. The crowd on Sunday was several thousands strong, anything (the cynic that I am) could happen. Moving on to pleasanter things, the mall is impeccably organized.
Couldn’t get a lot of photos as I was getting constantly jostled, elbowed and generally pushed around.
We managed to get out after about three hours and highly minimal shopping. Thought of eating some “Chinese” out here.
Impressively titled Beijing Bites, the taste was slightly better than the roadside “Chinese” stalls you can find all over the city. Expert comments from a certain chef I know are welcome.
A friendly warning to all reading this: don’t visit Big Bazaar on a Saturday or Sunday. If you must, please allocate an entire day for the ordeal.
the quality that BIG BAZAAR is giving is worse than what this laariwalas are selling.
I LOVE BIG BAZAAR AND STAFFS
WASTE OF TIME
WASTE OF MONEY
WASTE OF ENERGY
I THINK ,HONESTLY,FOR THE QUALITY OF THINGS YOU PROVIDE, YOU SHOULD GIVE IT FREE OF COST
EAST OR WEST, BIG BAZAAR IS THE WORST
very true.. its very congested on saturdays n sundays or for that matter any holidays.. very few things are actually cheaper than outside and the quality not very good. Shopping is a big ordeal and billing on a holiday is endless wait… very bad experience with wastage of time..
hi! first of all i would like to say about punch line of BIG BAZAR “isse achchha aur sasta kahin nahin” is not correct for the small cities like AGRA. It’s recently opned here and the place is over crowed. But I found that for some cosmetic produts they are providing some kind of discount other wise the quality of other products are not that good though the priceing is less for such kind of products. ex. I bought a 5 kg. pack of rice priced Rs. 350 and another was absolutly free with that means i got 10 kg. in 350 but if you take that from out-side BIG BAZAR its already 35/kg. what does it mean? I felt the total time wastage.
wowwww great Big Bazaar is really a very fucking Bazaar.Isse sasta aur acha to humaare yahan mil jaata hai.Naa to garments ki Quality achi hai aur naa hi rate.
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The customer service in big bazaar k’mangla was awesome…
Please give us the website for Big bazaar in your future paper advertisements and do please continue with your exchange offers every month.
Thanking you
Please give us the website for Big bazaar in your future paper advertisements and do please continue with your exchange offers every month.
Thanking you
Very good one, if the influx of such complexes, pubs and malls goes on
then we have to tell that “BANGALORE WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE GARDEN CITY OF INDIA”.
Good series.
I love Bangalore. I hate Bangalore.