Monday, 11 June 2012

Vinay Alexander (FT13194)--Suguna Textile Shop


Suguna Textile Shop



Suguna Textile shop is in the midst of the busy Mahabalipuram street. One glance into this shop you’d feel that this is a shop that sells sarees for women. But upon entering the shop I was surprised to find out that it sells all kinds of dresses and cloth material. The shop is in the form of a rectangle and well lit. There is a water cooler for the customers if they needed water. This shop is packed with all sorts of clothing ranging from sarees, kids wear, shirt, trousers, bed sheets, churidar etc. They also undertake stitching. On questioning further, I found out that most of their customers were locals and predominantly women who purchase sarees. Sarees ranged from cotton to silk to shiffon and to the current favorite synthetic. Most of the clothes are made in Surat. Foreigners also visit the shop and they mostly buy bedcovers.

There are about 5 sales girls who facilitate the process. And interestingly I found out there was a surveillance camera in that shop. The shop is open from 7AM to 10PM all days. They have about 100 customers per day and make sales of about Rs20000  to Rs30000. Most of the clothes are sold for a discount of 10% and much more during the holiday seasons. The owner of the shop was well versed in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Gujurati.  Above is the owners pic.

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