Good Times ahead for Street corner groceries.
The friendly neighbourhood grocery shop who provides your monthly provisions and gossip and on credit was almost becoming extinct in our cities and even small towns what with malls and hypermarkets gobbling up all the market with their attractive packaging and prices. Reliance Fresh vegetable shops have virtually driven out the push cart vendor out of the road!. Now of course there is good news for all these small vendors. The hyper markets and malls will no more be all that cheap. They have hired out super buildings at fancy rents and in a couple of months their rents are to be going up by 12.36% with the Service Tax on rented property. With such huge hike in rents, they are sure to increase their prices and the push cart vegetable vendor with no rents and overheads can perhaps teach a little economics to Reliance Fresh! PC is accused to have done nothing fore the aam admi . People don't read his budget properly. Isn't this an aam admi measure?