We finally managed to find a way to buy sporting goods with reasonable prices in Bangalore. The place to go to is Decathlon on Sarjapur Road, but they have this extremely odd membership scheme that until now has completely flummoxed me. They require your employer (the legal company) to register and only thereafter can employees register themselves to be allowed do some sports equipment shopping. In India it seems to be quite normal to require your customers to make piked double backflips with 1.5 twists to agree to sell something to them but until now this was the most extreme case. Well, apart from Airtel, obviously.
Well, my employer wasn't interested and that meant that e.g. new sports shoes for our son were really difficult to find. It's again Overseas Women's Club to the rescue as their members now can register in Decathlon. Yippee! Just need to remember to empty an ATM machine on the way there as paying with plastic is limited to cards with the OWC member's name on. Really, go figure as is usual, but finally our son has tennis shoes that fit again.
OWC has been really helpful in many ways already until now. Coming to Bangalore as an expat single man would be so much harder due to this fantastic resource not being available.
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The restriction may be due to government restrictions on multi brand stores run by foreign companies. The same applies to foreign supermarkets.
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