Cash and Carry

Bharti Walmart has opened its first store in Amritsar.


The global retail giant and the number one company in the Fortune 500 has officially stamped its presence and intentions.





I was reading about this in today's Eco Times and came across a term to which I was not really familiar.



Cash and Carry.

So I figured its basically a logic where wholesalers buy directly from Manufacturers and sell it at a cheap price at warehouses which are given touches like a mall or Big Bazaar.



They call it CnC cause the customer buys the commodity on the spot, pays on the spot and carries the goods away.



Now I am wondering... is this really going to help... given the Indian diaspora... a big number of people, we have seen a model so far where you put stuff in a basket or a trolley, walk around the store and pay it all at once at a counter.. which may or may not have a long queues.

I am thinking will this CnC business reduce time, result in shorter queues at multiple or will it save a lot of time as payment would me made as and when the customer has picked up his stuff.

And remember.. its CASH.. so no credit cards, no swipes, no signatures on bills which takes time.. but customers will need to carry a whole lot of cash and change in their pockets.

Cash and Carry is gaining momentum in India. Metro is another retail chain who earlier opened a similar outlet.

Lets see how this goes. Facts are they are selling Cereals 2-5 % cheaper, General Merchandise 25 % cheaper.

Cool.

Bhavin

My new Chinese phone.. What a piece of.... S***

My new Chinese phone has managed to piss me off enough for me to wrtie a biiig blog post on it.
Looks chic doesnt it.

Dual Sim, touch screen... more abt the touch later..... polyphonic, lots of colours real flashy blah blah blah....

Read every word... understand how bad it is.... try to realize wht u would do if u had to face this....

This phone is a torture.. it should be given to eloping War criminals so that they surrender due to frustration...

It has so many shortcomings.. I decided to make a list of how much does this phone really sucks..

First things first.. its from a brand called Kawasakhi.....

No no no.... its not a spelling mistake.. KawasakHI .. what Sakhi.. do these Chinese morons have a clue what Sakhi means in Hindi.. and there it is flashing kawasakhi with a crappy jingle when it starts.
Shit man where is Copyright, competition and fair practises forum.. here is some company selling phones by making a total joke out of the phenomenal bike brand Kawasaki and no one gives a damn about it. Too busy resurrecting the economy..not a bad thing to do.

That reminds me.. where the hell is Kawasaki these days. where are their bikes.. was it sold off.. I dont even see them in Moto GP... btw Rossi rocks.
I'll find out abt it later.. this post is abt my phone and how much it really sss..........

So... the name is bad enough... plus on the box it says Dual SIM.. in brackets , only one SIM can be functional at a time... and I m like.. WOW.. thanks for providing me with the cold storage to preserve my other SIM card.

GPRS.. Slow GPRS... very slow GPRS. .. I dont even wanna mention how much pain ans effort I had to go through to make it work... this thing just has all the settings at all the wrong places.

Neways.. this is how the GPRS works... u click a link..
Redirect request.. do you want to resend data .. I say Yes.

Redirect request.. do you want to resend data... Yes

Redirect request.. do you want to resend data ... Yes motherf**** thats why I clicked on the f***ing link... then it works...

SMS settings.. you can search the enitre phone for SMS settings.. but you will not find a setting which says.. Save sent messages..
So, if you are replying to someone's message.. there is no way you can see it in your sent items.. the phone is so smart.. it knows that you are intellingent enough to remember your replies.. so it doesnt make an effort to store it.

And yes when you compose a new messgage.. thanks the goodness in this world it gives you an option of save and send .

The phone is also not capable of recogninzing JPEG format images not taken from its cam.It just says Invalid format.. for JPEG.. and still stores the images clicked by its cam in the very same format. Imagine that.. u cannot view any other images.. whats the 2 GB memory card for??

One might argue music.. well let me tell you first .. there is no decent music player.. there is one which will not let you play the files stored in memory card.. yes Sir copy it on the bloody phone...

Orrrrrr go to ur memory card.. click the file you want to play.. it will give u a menu.. click play again like a fool.. and then it will play the song with a GIF of Charlie Chaplin dancing totally out of sync with the song.

Yes you guessed it, you cannot play multiple songs.. it does not undertand the word Playlist.. cos its English.. and this is a Chinese phone...

And whatever you do , dont turn the volume full, the speaker does not play the song.. it CRIES it out.. Bose and JBL users will jump out of window screaming help !! if they come to realize that sound quality can actually be so poor. ..

And you cannot Zoom into images. yes there is a button called Zoom it doesnt work.. not for any image.. it doesnt even let you Zoom out.

The came says 5 Mega auto focus.. the image shows less than 1 mega pixel quality witha Max resoulution of 640 X 480.

I hate my phone.

And what wonderful OS.. if I receive an SMS, I cant read it until I kill every bloody window that is open or kill every bloody application which is running.

There is no software available whatsover

It totally refuses to recognize Java files.

Game files are in .nes format which it refuses to install. You can just copy that file from one place to another if you enjoy doing that.

The only game installed is called Mahjong and its in Chinese.
I...
I just...
aaarghh...

And oh my goodness... it does not let you select a SMS tone.. the only option you have is to set a MIDI tone.. this is not 2006 , not 2007, not 2008 .. its bloody 2009 and this piece of crap is still stuck on MIDI format SMS tones.

Voice breaks, if you are able to hear the other party, chances are they wont be able to hear you.

If they are able to hear you... forget abt it.. u arent gonna hear them.. scream as much as u like .. u r just gonna piss the other side off.

The charger cable is only one feet long. And its lose..the moment you connect it , it says connected, and the very next second disconnected.

The headphones works only when it likes to...

And yes... the best thing of all... the biggest achievement of Chinese phone....

they say its touch screen.. no its not.. it HIT screen.. BANG screen.. you really have to watch Dennis Quaid's baseball movie ' The Rookie 'and throw your finger like a 100 MPH baseball pitcher to make the phone realize you have touched it.... and it needs to respond..... react.. pls..

I am back to my beautiful little black Moto Ming which I love so much.. even more now as I have experienced a disaster of a Chinese phone.. called E phone , trying to replicate iPhone..

Listen you cheap 4 feet Chinese crackpots.. you are never gonna bloody match the finesses, quality, features or even the aesthetics of Apple. Apple rocks at what it does and have the most perfect products in their fields.

Folks.. do not purchase Chinese phones.. go for brands.

Bhavin

Champs League Final... I am soooo happyyyyy

I recently posted ........Man.Utd is one club that I would always want to LOSE. LOSE BIG.

And I absolutely loved the looks on thir faces when they thrashed 2-0 by Barcelona FC at Roma's Estadio Olympico.

I have been a fan of Barcelona since the Patrick Kluivert days... the caretakers of football as they call it... beat the Red Devils in a surprisingly one sided finale.

United inspite of all the charisma , the hype, Ronaldos and Giggs , Rooneys.. could not get one decent shot on target!!

It was surgical precision in the midfield from Barca.. United just could not complete their passes.. man I love when United loses this way...

Repurcussions!!!!! ........ If they have any sense left.. Ronaldo and Tevez would leave United.

Shit man a club is willing to play 100 million dollars.. the richest i the world.. THE REAL MADRID.. Galacticos..

Ronaldo has to leave United now....

For Barcelona.. its a win win situation. They will easily retain the top players...will get a goood sum of money to look in the market.. and Guardiola ..man the youngest manager in history to in the UCL will definitely continue....

He got Barca a treble in his first season.. Spanish King's cup , the La Liga tile... and yesterday.. the night of champions.. UCL..

But hell m not writing this because Barca won.. m happy cos United Lost.... its the ultimate satisfaction for a Arsenal fan, besides Arseanl willing ofcourse..always.

Lol man Ronaldo and Tevez were standing right at the end of the line when they were getting the silver medals.. thiings havent been going too good wit Fergie for them...

M just waiting for the news that thy r leaving.........

The good thing was..Ferguesson admitted that they were outplyaed.. for a change Man Utd. did not blame it on the referee when they lose.

All said... great Refereeeing.. A Swiss referee for such a huge event was a shock.. but he lived upto te expectations.

Again... m just so happy.

More to come...

Bhavin.

Champions League Final... confession

Full Disclosure:
My favorite football team in the world is Arsenal FC, but I definitely have a special place in my heart for Barca. This means three things about my feelings towards this matchup:
1) I want Barcelona to win because I always want them to win (except win they’re playing Arsenal or Real Madrid .)
2) I want Manchester United to lose because I always want them to lose (except when they play Chelsea then I want the pitch to open up and swallow all 22 players into hell. If that means an innocent ref has to go with them then so be it, because let’s be honest ‘innocent ref’ is an oxymoron.) And
3) I want Barcelona to win because of Thierry Henry (more on him later.)

By the Gods... and ofcourse the Godess.

I am not sure why this thought came into my mind.. but suddenly remembered THOR. The Norse God.

Maybe I was listening to Scandinavian metal band like Children of Bodom or Ensiferum which suddenly got him into my mind.

And as it so often happens one thought links to another and it happened here.... I was reminded of one interesting object associated with most of the Gods... their famous weapons... it always appears in our imagination .. when we think of Gods... their picture holding their weapons...

Consider Thor with him hammer....

Looking at Zeus witha bolt of lightening in his hand ,

Ares with his spear,

Aphrodite with her beauty,.Indra with his Vajra, Shiva's Trident, Krishna with his Chakra......... or even the fictional Kratos.. from God of War fame.. with his Blades of Chaos.

Weapons ar always associated with the Gods.. its like their trump card... they put it on when they really got their arse beaten up by the devils or whoever.....

But this gave me another interesting thought about our imagination... or I shoud say the way different Gods are presented to us...!!!

For instance.. when u think of Thor.. u will imagine an all muscular God in an attacking stance really about to smash someone with his Hammer.. great viking crown..

Zeus.. u'll picturize as white robes.. about to electrocute someone with his lightning bolt... again an agressive picture..

Similar with the likes of Kratos and Ares and of course the Titans.

Titans is a topic which has always fascincated me. Will probably write a blog abt it later.

Back to my topic, reagarding God's impressions in our mind... thinking of Indian Gods....

Why are they never standing as if they are abt to hit someone...

Have u ever seen Indra with a Vakra in his hands.. he will just stand at one place with Vajra mayyyybe shown in the picture rusting besides him..

Ever seen Shiva throwing a Trident... or even poking it into someone's... whatever..

Or Krishna really abt to cut someone's throat with his Chakra.... nope he just used a lot of Glue to keep it so stable in his finger...

Nope.. all of them would be standing there.. weapons in their hands.... lots of hands.. yeah another things with Indian gods.. they have multiple hands but .. .. I dont know why they need them... multiple heads in case of Bramha.. birdwatching.

And ohh.. all of them would always have a niiiiiiice grin on their faces...

Somietimes I am like... what the hell are they grinning about.. thanks Goodness its just a grin.. if they would be stading like that showing their teeth... would have been a candidate in comedy circus...

Newayyyyyyyysss.... just some thought tht came to my mind...

More to come...

Bhavin

Furious with Ferrarri

What in the world, is Ferrarri Formula 1 team doing...

Seems like they have lost it.

The same Ferrarri which used to win races for Schumacher soleley on the basis of pit stop and fuel strategy is now the team which has made the worst blunders in this years F1 season.

Needless to say they have come out in this season with one of the worst designed cars, no double diffuser, too much reliance on KERS ( Kinetic Engine Reclamation System) and lacking downforce in turns which loses them close to .5 a second.

For those of you who are new to F1.. 0.5 seconds is a very very big deal.

So they already have a bad car , on top of it.. to begin with.....

2 major blunders in the Spanish GP.

1. Kimi left out in Q1 of qualifying thanks to overconfidence.. his time was beaten in the dying seconds due to which he was left stranded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man you shoud have seen Kimi jumping out of his car.. for the first time in my life I saw anger in Kimi's expression.

Last time he crashed I saw him eating an ice cream out of the Ferrarri refrigerator!!!!!!!!!!

And guess what they made the same mistake with Felipe earlier in the season.

2. Felipe Massa.. poor guy.. for the first time in this season he managed to keep his car running,...and with three laps in the race remaining while he was at fouth position... he was told.. oh man.. he was told that he was one lap short on his fuel and he needs to save it.

Now these are big drivers.. and if their career is taking a hit due to their constructor.... they will be furious.. and Felipe very rightly was... well he finsihed the race.. but lost three precious positions and finished 7th.

I am just hoping that Ferrarri recover, get some gutsy and intelligent people in their team to make strategies.. and just keep it simple at times.... they are showing signs.. and really want Kimi to win races... I have never admired or loved a driver as much as I have liked Raikkonnen.... this photograph will just give you an example...

More to come......

Bhavin

What to write now that I have finally started....

I dont know if this has ever happened to any of you 'bloggers'............
I think a lot ... some people would opine its a good thing but friends who just wanna sit with u and drink.. just say 'you think a lot'.. and the connotation seems negative for sure...
So I think a lot.and sometimes I get some really whacky stuff in my brain which I think I should really be documenting .... bcos its like really... or maybe.. in my opinion...something I should remember..
so let me say this again.. I dont know if this has happened to any of you.. but when you are actually registered to a blog site.. newly like I am right now.. u are all excited about starting to blog and write stuff u r thinking and all.. but whenI actually clicked create blog and the keyboard is wating for me.. I am trying to remember what was the real supposedly smart idea I wanted to document for which I registered at this website at the first place.....

I am 100 % sure all of those who are still reading this have heard the cliche... thinking is easier than doing ..... or the other way round.. something like that....

So this, as it really strikes me. is a classic example of that cliche.. all this time I was thinking of creating a blog and writing all the stuff that I think.. but when I am actually getting started... it suddenly seems a bit tough..... to remember those things...

Anyways.. I will probably add more to this.. an insomniac as I am , its 12:51 AM and there is not a wink of sleep in my eyes yet..I think I have written a lot for my first post.....

more coming up.. surely....

Bhavin.