A woman showed her husband the Shirt that she bought for him in today’s shopping.

The man exclaimed “How much you care for me!”, “I loved it”, “How much did it cost?”

“FREE!!”, the woman replied, “it came FREE with three sarees!”

Women have long been central character for most Shopping Jokes. Though official history of Shopping does not go far in Ancient civilization, I bet it goes as far as time when Adam and Eve lived. You see when Adam felt lonely God created Eve and when Eve felt lonely he created Shops and thus started Shopping!

Yesterday when I was shopping at Big Bazaar Malad…, now don’t be surprised, my wife was with me (or rather I was with her)… an offer caught my attention “Ladies Corduroy – Buy 1@499 – Buy 2@999”

Offers where you save more when purchase 2 pieces instead of 1 are normal at Big Bazaar but this offer looked different, indeed it was different. Any shopaholic woman could straightaway go for the purchase of 2 pieces even if she wanted none. An alert woman will however find that there is no savings here 500 (rounded) for 1 and 1000 (rounded again) for 2, where is the saving?

Only a ‘mathematician-at-heart’ woman will find that in fact you are paying 1 rupee more when you go for two pieces. Now was this by mistake or a marketing strategy? will Big Bazaar people care to tell us?