spar

Our budget was about Rs 500 and we had a list of grocery items to purchase on a Sunday evening. We moved out in Maruti Swift. The nearest retail outlet was closed as it was Id. We skipped the local grocery store as wife suggested to try Nilgiri's at Bannerghatta road. Therefore we skipped two Fabmalls and a Foodworld which were closer to home and kept driving towards Nilgiri's. Luckily there was parking available for only a single car but wife suggested lets try Spar, a recently opened hypermart somewhere close to Sagar Apollo hospital. I felt bad for missing a parking lot but went ahead in search of hypermart.. We crossed Apollo junction and I was not sure it would come in right or left so was going slow in center of the road. Suddenly I saw it on right of the road and the road was mysteriously cut through the divider, a right turn risking the oncoming rush of traffic. I took the challenge from oncoming traffic as vehicles kept going past me in whatever small gap was there in front of the car and we finally managed to cross the road and enter Spar premises.
The parking was not available so we ket waiting for a while. I asked the rest of family to go ahead and explore as I could see the excitement in eyes of my wife and she was waiting for an opportunity to just get out of car and get in the hypermart. I was told a lift would come and pick the car and park it somewhere but luckily all that was avoided as a space was generated there.
I called up my wife once inside and found her in nearby aisle. It was a pain going through the items as she was checking on the price and availability. There were few items like Complan and 1 kg ParleG packet and 1 KG Tide that she could not locate and thus the task was delegated to me. I asked around and the first two were not available and we compromised on the variety of the Tide.
There were few puja items and kids toys that we had not initially planned to buy. The bill came to about Rs.2000. The counter clerk was from Orissa as he was looking here and there and confirming items and seems to be unaffected by the queue building up. I came to the other side and tried to give suggestions as we had problems finding khova and bill it for 500 gms instead of a kg otherwise I would lose Rs 5o more. Finally after a long while as system was not allowing option he managed to delete the line and struggled with the bar code sticked on khova pack and managed to straighten it and the reader could understand and people in queue shook their heads as I smiled at their waiting.
We had reached there are 6:30 PM and came out at about 9:00. Did I say that we spent a while checking out the music system. We made the poor guy made us explain the feature that he was not well versed with. I dont know how much the feature would have helped us make a decision as we we were inclined for a Sony and what we were getting in return was only a sawariya audio CD. We left deciding to check out at few more shops.
We came to the spot where we had to choose between Janani and Nandini restaurant and my four year old was very clear on that it would be Nandini only even though we found parking near Janani. The waiter was scared that I would share the unlimited meal with my wife who was anyway fasting but I clarified the additional plate would be required to put some rice in the four year's old plate and they were really generous to put quite a lot.
Generally the four year old would sleep while returning but there was a new cooking set and I was asked to open it as I navigated through the extensive packing and ultimately ripped in about half an hour and she kept playing even after we went to sleep.