Shopping Mania

T.Nagar – The shopping paradise of Chennai was no different this year. With hardly 10 days away from Diwali, you can see fleetness among the crowd, busy with their shopping. With huge stores attracting the crowd, T.Nagar easily becomes the most happening place in Chennai. The traffic strategy adopted by the Chennai traffic police was pretty handy and helped the mobility of the crowd to some extent. The construction of flyover in Usman road added to the traffic policemen’s headache. Despite all these hurdles, crowd was continuously pouring in and infact, there was a significant increase in the number of people visiting T.Nagar this year.

The shopping style of the consumers has undergone a sea change over the years. Even though the shopping malls prove to be a major crowd-puller especially for youth, T.Nagar stands tall with its ever-growing popularity! There are in fact certain drawbacks like lack of parking space (driving in T.Nagar during these days, a night mare and finding a parking place is even bigger) etc., but it has been the major destination for shopping. However, people who don’t mind spending more prefer other big outlets, rather than gasping amidst the fleeting crowd. But, most people say T.Nagar gives them the real shopping experience! ( I suppose all gals would agree with me)

Today (28th October), Chennai experienced some heavy down-pour that continued since overnight and lashed quite heavily at times. Driven by curiosity, me and my uncle took the car and drove to T.Nagar to see how rain has affected the business. As expected, the traffic was not terrific in pondy bazaar and near panagal park, the roads looked relatively void (as per its previous standards). But, all the crowd were seen inside the shops! Unable to come out in the rain, people who were inside the shops were standing at the entrance with umbrellas in their hands. You usually get to see only heads in panagal park, but this time, it looked different. Instead of heads, umbrellas were seen! Take a look at the pictures which I managed to take sitting inside the moving car… You can see a lot of people holding umbrellas and standing at the entrance of Saravana Stores.

Seems like nothing can stop people from shopping! The consumer market in this part of the country has grown like anything and has caught the attention of all big players in business. It has been said that about 70-80% of the gold sold in Chennai is from this region. Buyer’s potential has shot up significantly compared to the last decade and the emergence of hyper markets and shopping malls and the kind of business they make prove it right.

Crowd in T.Nagar lights up the festive mood in Chennai. Diwali is underway and by
this time, lot of people would have already burnt a hole in their purses and for people those who are waiting for the 1st of November to arrive and yet to go for diwali shopping, get ready for a big one!

Wishes for a happy, colorful and safe diwali...!

Cheers!!!