MRP@Chennai = Minimum Retail Price

If you live in Chennai you should know the rule of shopping. No Bargaining!

And if you have come from the Jaipur or Kolkata that's the first thing you would do!

And if you do bargain... it's only to pay the MRP and not the price asked by the seller.

Buying in Chennai is like paying the Premium on an IPO. Though the share is set at Rs. 10... you would be asked to pay a few hundreds! And this is not new or something that has come up with the recent burst of BPO industry, it has been here ever since I moved to the city 19 years ago.

So who is complaining? No one I see around me. The administrations team in my office shows a shocked face when I brought to their notice that the vendors are asking for more than the MRP in our cafeteria!

The malls charge you a premium on drinks cos you are allowed the privilege of buying it there... so do the theaters! Dominos (with the help of Coke) has gone to the extent of getting the MRP printing on the pet bottles they sell to cost Rs 10 more than what it costs in a store next to it!

But who is complaining? No one around me at least!

And why? cos they have the money to spend? I don't think so. It's b'cos they don't have the brains to stand up as a unit! Cos they are not ready to present a united consumer front. Cos they don’t have the F**king balls to stand up! Cos they are so deep in the shit of Chalta Hai attitude!

So if you are a Chennaite and think you should not be paying that extra Rs 2 on MRP for every thing you buy at the beach... show some balls and stand up. Stand up for what you should be rightfully not willfully charged.

For god sake... stand up!