[Resolved]  Vishal Mega Mart Allahabad — Cheating / stealing money

Address: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

For over a year now, Vishal Mega Mart in Allahabad, UP has been keeping only candy in the change drawers in place of coins. If you need change for anything less than 10 rupees, you will be payed in candy unless you ask specifically for cash, at which point they will have each cashier empty their pockets until they finally scrounge up enough money to give.

I know, this is India - sometimes shops don't have change, and give a sweet or something instead of change in case of emergency. But to stock your cash registers for over a year with only candy, that is cheating - a sneaky and clever form of fraud, actually.

I worked in retail internationally, I know how it works...you buy candy wholesale for 50 paise, and sell it for 1 rupee, thus making an additional, un-noticed, hidden-from-taxes profit with each sale.

The manager in the Allahabad shop knows that this is the policy...and insists it's not cheating or wrong because Vishal gives you cheap prices in the first place, "so there is no issue here." Yet that does not make their illegal act pardonable or okay.

Even if I wanted to follow that line of reasoning Yes, there are cheap prices sometimes. But it was not advertised as "100 rupees for this item and 6 candies, " it was advertised as "This item for 94 rupees."