Tomorrow is dad’s birthday and I, being the lazy asshole, decided to run out and get him a gift today evening. Surprisingly my mom also offered to tag along. We went straight to Landmark, Nungambakkam. I realized that the last time my mom had come to Landmark was before I joined college. She didn’t know that it had grown so much. She was very surprised to see the suave and sophisticated new look that Landmark now sports. My entire family has been loyal to Landmark ever since it’s inception as a small book store in 1988. Although I started going only from 1995, my dad was a regular customer ever since they opened shop in 1988. Even today we have made it a point to go to Landmark atleast once in two weeks. Coming back to my mom’s reaction, The last time she had seen it, there was very little extra stuff inside Landmark as in no shades (cooling glasses 
), no watches, no cutlery ware, no T-shirts, no iPods, no Tamil books. She was so damn surprised to see how tightly packed Landmark is now! I would say Landmark has grown quite a lot in the last 5 years. So much that my mom couldn’t even recollect which was stocked where when she last saw it!
This is also showing us one additional thing. It is the growth in the Indian Retail Sector. The sector has seen a phenomenal growth in the recent years and is due to see more growth in the near future with the entry of giants like Wal-Mart. So many players have cropped-up/expanded-drastically in the recent past, namely Reliance’s Fresh, Aditya-Birla’s More, Future-Group’s Central, Pantaloon and Big Bazaar, Trent’s Landmark and West Side, Raheja’s Shopper’s Stop, Local players such as Nilgiris, Vitan, Vivek’s and many more. This sector has grown way more than what was expected. I would also say it has the scope to expand more. If you are in a dilemma as to what to study after a non-professional course, I would recommend that you do an MBA specializing in the Retail Sector like this one or maybe this one.
Yours Skeptically,
uleadin
P.S. I got my dad an antique alarm clock and he liked it very much.
people who read this dont get tricked by his words and land shopping in landmark every time…. before u do so please read this as well http://sathyanarain.com/2008/02/12/not-a-landmark-anymore/
@csrinath:
I’m a LM regular da. I know where anything would be kept. So, I don’t need the help of those salesguys. Hence, Landmark is fine with me!
but u will have to accept the fact that their standards r coming down….. n besides iam addressing to LM freshers not u….