SLC31-W3: Shop & Share Challenge - Street Market Purchase

This market as I told you is as easy to reach and useful for me because of its compact location and mix of shops. True, It is not a large mall-style market but more of a busy local commercial area where one can find daily need items for quick purchasing.

I can walk to this market without changing into formals so overall, it's like a convenient, community-focused market rather than a high-end shopping destination and if I have to go to such a high-end market I can walk 200 hundred meters further for bigger ones.

The market is more of a local neighborhood market than a big shopping center, so it mainly serves daily needs, clothes, groceries, gifts, and small services.

DH Market Modipuram shops:

Fashion Stores - shirt retail and readymade garment wholesaling.
Boutique - boutique and fashion
Grocery stores
Fashion Parlors
Tailors
Hair cut
Electrical shops
General stores — small daily-need stores, Gift shops, Stationery shops, Food/snack vendors
Service shops- like dry cleaners, Hair cutting
Dairy- Milk, yogurt and ice-creams

✓ The price of the item you purchased from the street or the open market

I bought:

Item	Price INR	Steem
Nuts 250 gm	50	10
Wheat flour 2kg	85	17
Gram Flour 1/2 kg	45	9
Bananas 9 numbers	50	10
Small Bread 1	20	4

✓ Describe your shopping experience, including pricing, bargaining, and product quality

Shopping at DH Market, always feels convenient being local market, with a mix of daily-need stores, gift shops, boutique-style clothing outlets, groceries, and small service shops in one place where I can walk easily.

It is easy to reach from my house so the it feels fun and also keeps me active and practical rather than fancy or crowded like a mall which I have had enough in Australia where there are no such markets.

One can buy household essentials, fashion items, greeting cards, small presents, milk, curd and snacks in a single visit and yes a hair cut if you need one. The prices and variety make it useful for routine shopping not much bargaining as most of the shopkeepers are personally known to me.

✓ In some places street or open markets usually cause traffic describe how busy the street or open market is

This market is never too crowded being in a housing society but as a few coaching institutes are here so when the batches of students come out after insisting their session during the evenings and gather at fast food counters it becomes a little chaotic but that's okay for the sake of shopkeepers even if the families have to wait for a while. There is nothing serious traffic disturbance as such.

✓ What is your advice to the street or open market sellers to improve business performance?

Although the traders know their interests best yet being a marketing professional I can say that street and open market sellers must improve business by keeping stalls neat, using fair price policy, and keep their best-selling items at prime places so their customers notice them as they visit.

They should know their busy hours, as sometimes I feel that they should open early and stay late. They should offer discounts reducing their profit margin so to attract more customers.

I know a couple of them are rude so keeping a friendly behavior and service, will bring repeat-customers. The shopkeepers in this market like all other markets have digital tools like WhatsApp, UPI, and Google Pay so payment is not a problem and also they offer credit to their regular especially salaried customers.

Details

DH market	Pallavpuram Phase 1 Modipuram, India
Google Maps	Maps
Steem Atlas PIN	//:# (!steematlas 29.05280862 lat 77.71329403 long DH Market, Pallavpuram, India d3scr)

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