It’s been raining discounts since the last few months. Have actually written a piece on this..let’s see when it gets published.  For one, discounts seem to be going on forever making people spend all their savings.

So getting tempted to see one of the advertisements of furniture, I went out to a shopping outlet adjoining a bus station in Bangalore.

Intended to go to Reliance Living, but right from the parking space where there was no light (quite literally) in the basement and I had second thoughts if I need to be alert as a woman or at the entrance of the Reliance stores that seemed so very uninviting.

Everything was wrong. Nevertheless I thought if I do find something good of my interest and well within my budget, I might book it. But this place at Banashankari had everything that would definitely keep shoppers especially far away from them.

There is no proper accessibility to the entrance. I understand that the mall is yet being built up but it cannot afford to ignore whatever minimum visitors who are brave enough to visit the store.

I have found this trait of myself, when I am moving around the city for a planned or unplanned purchase, I like to visit stores or malls that does not hassle me for parking, lighting, safety. I hardly visit stores that have stairs and are on the first floor or above. It hardly tempts me to climb it up and get my essentials.

Hope the Reliance retail too does something quickly to make their BSK outlets look more inviting in terms of accessibility and make women feel safe when they come to park their vehicles in the basement. There was no natural light and there was not a single bulb. I thought this would be the last time I will be visiting such a store/mall.