Thanks for your response

Dear Readers and fellow Belgaumites,

I am overwhelmed with the response I have got from this blog in the past week. Already more than 98 people have seen this blog and many of you have also find time to pen in your comments.

Thanks for all the comments and I will try and incorporate the suggestions you all have made. I will try my best to update as when I get information.

One more word the success of this blog depends upon also that the word is spread across, so kindly spread the word about this blog, I will not dishearten you.

Regards,
UkMaD

CLC hits Belgaum markets

CLC / C2C
These are by no means some chemical formula. This is Infact business formula being used by businessmen in Belgaum.
CLC- According to them means Company Landing Cost
C2C- means Cost to cost

Discounts and offers have been prevailing the markets since the markets began. But in a few years the trend of cheap goods and heavy discounts have been the lime light and the same has been followed not only by small traders but also organized retail on a national basis.

The current trend in Belgaum, I think the credit goes to an electronic shop, which wanted to shut shop so started the CLC. It also worked for it I believe, then its sister concerns stared the same trend in ready-mades and saris. And then what as it happens in India, he made money by doing such a thing come we will also do the same way. So at the moment according to my knowledge there must be at least 5-6 big shops selling goods in that method of CLC. This time of the year normally the business is normally dull due to rains and other reasons. Hence traders tend to give some kind of discount to get rid of their stocks.

Some others feel that this is being done just Big Bazzar will open its door for business so that the consumers will not leave the traditional market. But friends when there is competition and the market widens the only thing that will eventually happen over a period of time is that the market will grow both ways, the traditional as well as the malls. In a place Bangkok where I have seen with my own eyes the business done by the small trader just outside mall is now much more than he used to do when there was no mall here.

In short it’s the consumer is king and he will know what CLC really meant.

Potholes vs. Belgaumites: Potholes 1-0

The scene of any road in Belgaum looks alike, with potholes all over the place some being invisible due to water filled in it.

On 8th august the potholes took one life when a 42 year old lady tried to skip a few of these potholes by her kinetic and while doing this she fell down and was over driven by a bus. The incident happened near the kolhapur cross. Agitated people staged a roadblock and made the municipal authorities to come there and asked the authorities not to travel in car but on a motorcycle so that they can understand the hardships faced by the common people. A few people took this opportunity to personally show the higher authorities the potholes which they might not have seen as they travel in the comfort of the AC car with windows and curtains.

The situation will only become worse with time to come. Some odd 100 crores were spent for the roads but the people say not even lakhs were really put in the road work all the rest went as commission at different levels.

You go on any road the potholes is a necessary and the potholes take rebirth at the same place where they had lived their happy life a few years ago. I don’t seem to understand that how do these Potholes take a reincarnation at the same place, something which bollywood must take thought of and make a Karan Arjun again.

News of thousands of injuries goes unreported every day. Small accidents happen every day while one tries to skip a pothole. In all more news of death and injury caused due to potholes will be common and one day after some one from the higher authorities falls a prey to them then only we will find the potholes filled with mud, which in turn will act as a catalyst for some more action on the road. Hope I had the magical broom of Harry Potter.

At the end its potholes 1 – Belgaumites 0.

Heavy rains ....

Heavy down pour is lashing Belgaum, water logging has happened in many places. The weather is very cold.
Today is Tuesday and the day of Vadgaon Mangai Jatra, even with heavy rains the atmosphere in Vadgaon is very delightful.

Belgaums organised retail

In Belgaum, we are used to go to the markets like Raviwar peth for shopping for food grains, Ganpat Galli for vegetables, Khade bazar(both), Ramdev Galli for clothes, Maruti Galli for the women of Belgaum is a shopping delite and many more places like Bhendi Bazar, may be to some extent also Deshmukh road and Khanapur Road.

Now the BIG BAZAAR is coming up at Angol Cross, near to Bahai Bhavan on Khanapur Road. The place is almost ready and should start by month end already placements for the same are in progress. The place seems too big according to me for a city like Belgaum.

NEXT, the electronic super market will open shortly at Ramdev galli, opposite Ram temple (earlier Adarsha electronics, now closed).

Reliance Fresh is squinting for space and seems to have identified a few but I cant confirm the places still. Rumors are there that one space on khanapur road opposite to IOC building, not sure.

Harsha, the electronic shop is there at Club Road. Adishwars is at Kolhapur Cross opposite to old Ratna Bajaj.

The most awaited Pyramid mall is getting its shape in the old Kapeel theatre, which is now part of history. The said mall will have 4 screens from Adlabs and 2 floors of shopping space.

Belgaum is now getting the organized retail chain in the city. But the question arising here is there such a huge market in the city. With a population of about 8 lakhs and literally zero floating population when you compare it with Bangalore will these work profitable over a period of time.

I may be wrong, but the thing here is, is there a sustainable market place? Undoubtedly Belgaum has been a under developed market no second thoughts on it but still I think in this manner.

Many say that the regular shop owners in the market are getting afraid of these retails chains, but the truth is even in Bangalore for that matter the malls leaving a few like Forum are not getting the foot falls as they used to get when they started, the hype is gone I would say. And one more thing is that in Belgaum, mainly people from neighboring talukas come for shopping and they by no means would be interested in these malls, as the choice that they want wont be available there, that’s a different market segment which wont get converted.

Anyways this is my first blog, in which I have tried to write what my heart feels no grudges of any sort on anyone just a true feeling……

Welcome to the Belgaum's City blog

Welcome to the Belgaum's Blog.

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