Recently my credit card company was kind enough to send me two vouchers for Rs.500/= each to be redeemed at a Wills Lifestyle store. As jeans and t-shirt has become the standard dress code for me post retirement, I thought of getting myself a full sleeves T for the winters. I visited the Wills Lifestyle section in a West Side shop. There I learnt that I had to go to a full fledged Wills store to redeem the coupons. And then while reading the terms and conditions again I further realized that the two coupons could not be clubbed together. That meant that I had to purchase two separate items from a Wills store. I regretted having parked my vehicle in the paid parking for such a brief transactions and drove to the Wills store in a Mall further down the road.
Wills did not have the kind of T that I was interested in. And amongst what they had, the least expensive one was priced at around Rs.2000/=!! It looked like a pretty bad bargain even after discounting the coupon value. I decided to take a look at the shirts. I knew that Wills Lifestyle is an expensive store but was hardly prepared for what I stumbled upon. It was a stack of shirts each priced at Rs.5,495/=!!!!! Yes, you got it right: Rupees Five Thousand Four Hundred Ninety Five for a single shirt! I told the salesman that this was a discovery that I was going to share with all my friends even if they already knew it. He showed me some "affordable" shirts priced at around Rs.2000/=; but my mind was already made. I threw the coupons in the nearest dustbin and proceeded to Spencers' where I got exactly what I had in mind for a price in three digits.
I am wondering how far below the "Wills" poverty line do I lie?
Wills did not have the kind of T that I was interested in. And amongst what they had, the least expensive one was priced at around Rs.2000/=!! It looked like a pretty bad bargain even after discounting the coupon value. I decided to take a look at the shirts. I knew that Wills Lifestyle is an expensive store but was hardly prepared for what I stumbled upon. It was a stack of shirts each priced at Rs.5,495/=!!!!! Yes, you got it right: Rupees Five Thousand Four Hundred Ninety Five for a single shirt! I told the salesman that this was a discovery that I was going to share with all my friends even if they already knew it. He showed me some "affordable" shirts priced at around Rs.2000/=; but my mind was already made. I threw the coupons in the nearest dustbin and proceeded to Spencers' where I got exactly what I had in mind for a price in three digits.
I am wondering how far below the "Wills" poverty line do I lie?
