I'm now paying for my shopping sins (well, working). This morning I hit the shops in search of a new digital camera for myself and Stuart.The HP camera I brought with me decided to die and so is no good. Stuart was after a Canon IXUS 50 to give his Dad for his birthday so I thought I'd look for 2.
A caught a taxi up to Mustafa's which is in Little India. It's a huge department store with just about anything you can think of for sale. The prices, though, didn't seem to be as good as I'd expected so I walked down to Sim Lim Square and did some further checking. I'd checked the price of the Canon camera in Australia so had something to measure the bargain against.
After some poking around, and price hunting, I found the right camera and the right price so I'm now the proud (and poor) owner of a new Canon IXUS 50 digital camera (plus one for Stuart). It's amazing - in these big shopping complexes there are simply dozens of stores selling the same electrical goods, competing with each other on price. It makes me wonder how any of them make any money, especially when you consider they need to pay rent and other fixed costs, staff wages, and then have some profit left over. I guess my bargaining didn't help their bottom line too much , but then I'm the buying and so am only in it for me! Interesting to be on the other side of the counter every once in a while - gives you a different perspective on business.
After what is now the last of my shopping, I walked back to the hotel, stopping for some lunch on the way. I'm keeping myself locked in my hotel room in order to get some work done before the cocktail party starts at 7pm. I believe Wayne is arriving later tonight from Sydney, but not until after the party kicks off.
I'll endeavour to post back here after the event - if there's anything to report. The real fun starts tomorrow so stay tuned.
I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go.....
Posted
Apr 24 2005, 06:20 PM
by
calvert