It amazes me how a mall during a sale can resemble a jungle. It's survival of the fittest when you've all got your eye on the same piece of furniture. My mom, my two sisters and I went to SM Megamall in search of furniture pieces today and to our surprise it was a mall-wide sale day, and the whole place was packed. I'm telling you there was hardly any elbow room. Although it took forever to line up at the cashier and shopping related injuries were on an upscale, there were a few things i discovered that i would not have lest it was any other ordinary day, and here they are:
1. Demo Guys can be entertaining - Have you taken the time to watch a salesman do one of his product demonstrations? You know, where they try to sell portable vacuums, irons, knives etc? These people can be hilarious! You can just sit there and watch them do their thing, especially when no one's watching and they're trying to get attention, and these poeple can be real stand-up comedians. It ain't easy standing there for a day trying to sell something no one's interested in.
2. Megamall can be a maze - It's great how so many things can be packed in one big place but when there are thousands of people and every display corner looks the same, it can get pretty tiring trying to find cashier 8.
3. A coffee table, a floor lamp and a number of shopping bags can fit inside a cab - Yes, it takes maneuvering and cab layout ingenuity, but it is possible.
4. You can make friends in the cab queue- I did! A mom! And the cutest little kid named Basti!
5. Food comes to you while you're in line - Yep, profiteering Pizza Hut people were going up and down the line trying to sell boxes of Hawaiian.
6. You should always have mineral water ready when shopping- One can almost never find the time, and the place, to buy water when there's a sea of people to navigate through.
7. Salespeople can be really patient - It's no easy task trying to get my mom's finicky orders. And when our salesman Joey was sent to the stockroom, by my mom nonetheless, a number of times to check if there still is stock of something she wanted, Joey always came back with a smile. He even carried our coffee table to the cab line! Salespeople are unsung heroes of shopping!
8. Mega A does not have the department store, it's in Mega B- Or so i think. Because we never did find the department store entrance in Mega A.
9. "You are the Minstrel" never sounded so sweet - WLL says it best, when it reminds you you're in a cab speeding away from the crowds and heading home.
10. Things you bought aren't the only stuff you'll be taking home- there's also sore feet, a bruised arm (in my case, while someone tried to elbow me out of the way), a certain funk, memories of new cab queue friends, and leftover pizza.
There. So always remember the ten things I learned while shopping in Megamall during a sale, because when SM says We Got It All For You, they really mean it.
1. Demo Guys can be entertaining - Have you taken the time to watch a salesman do one of his product demonstrations? You know, where they try to sell portable vacuums, irons, knives etc? These people can be hilarious! You can just sit there and watch them do their thing, especially when no one's watching and they're trying to get attention, and these poeple can be real stand-up comedians. It ain't easy standing there for a day trying to sell something no one's interested in.
2. Megamall can be a maze - It's great how so many things can be packed in one big place but when there are thousands of people and every display corner looks the same, it can get pretty tiring trying to find cashier 8.
3. A coffee table, a floor lamp and a number of shopping bags can fit inside a cab - Yes, it takes maneuvering and cab layout ingenuity, but it is possible.
4. You can make friends in the cab queue- I did! A mom! And the cutest little kid named Basti!
5. Food comes to you while you're in line - Yep, profiteering Pizza Hut people were going up and down the line trying to sell boxes of Hawaiian.
6. You should always have mineral water ready when shopping- One can almost never find the time, and the place, to buy water when there's a sea of people to navigate through.
7. Salespeople can be really patient - It's no easy task trying to get my mom's finicky orders. And when our salesman Joey was sent to the stockroom, by my mom nonetheless, a number of times to check if there still is stock of something she wanted, Joey always came back with a smile. He even carried our coffee table to the cab line! Salespeople are unsung heroes of shopping!
8. Mega A does not have the department store, it's in Mega B- Or so i think. Because we never did find the department store entrance in Mega A.
9. "You are the Minstrel" never sounded so sweet - WLL says it best, when it reminds you you're in a cab speeding away from the crowds and heading home.
10. Things you bought aren't the only stuff you'll be taking home- there's also sore feet, a bruised arm (in my case, while someone tried to elbow me out of the way), a certain funk, memories of new cab queue friends, and leftover pizza.
There. So always remember the ten things I learned while shopping in Megamall during a sale, because when SM says We Got It All For You, they really mean it.
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