What are these? Bell Peppers or What: From the Noida Sunday Bazar(Now that Ketan mentions it, they do look like capsicums, don’t they?)
Vegetables in the Local Market, Noida
We are used to buying our vegetables from the local market where the sellers put there stuff under the sky out in the open and we take our pick. I wonder how a majority of us would react to coming of the Walmarts of the world to us, I wonder if the way we shop is going to change? Cause I am not willing to drive any place and find parking with the kind of roads, traffic and parking facilities we have. But this is no informed opinion, just what I feel, my initial reaction. In fact I would give my students an F if they wrote something like this but thankfully this is no assignment.
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You are right Anil. I just want the local markets to go on and I hope our congested traffic system will ensure that people like me will not drive and struggle for parking to shop at any mart.
Walmart will bring a sense of antiseptic to the shopping experience. Haven’t others already?
Prashanth, I hope the traffic will remain chaotic and we will never find the will to drive through it to a mart!I hope so Cuckoo.Akira, thanks a lot for brining some clarity. So bell peppers and capsicum are the same! These colors were not available at least in the local sabzi mandi (vegetable market) a few years back. And I too love the colors.
wow such colorful veggies…I walk thr’ the sabzi mandi would refresh anyone…
..I guess bell peppers is an american name fr capsicum..here you go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper
Yes, they are capsicum but smaller in size compared to what I have seen abroad.Well, Walmart or any mart.. our local kirana shop is going to stay.
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That first photo looks like of artificial vegetables made of candle !!And being Big bazaar, Fabmall and others already operating, its not that easy entry for Walmart. Only people going to suffer will be roadside small shops…On the other hand – W*M is our client
Sidhu, thanks for calling them tomatos, at least you were as confused as I was when I saw them first
Ketan, thanks for the identification.Qaminante, I hope so that there is space for both in India.Sigma, I do not know. And by common consensus I will call them capsicums 
Deepak I have not got it yet, should get it anytime next week. It could have happened over the weekend but we are going somewhere.I would love to see them in orange color too, Tarun.
yes they are capsicums and orange one is missing, I mean it comes in orange color too.
Thanks for the nice comments Mridula
I am flattered.Have you got your DSLR yet?
They look so nice and bright.But I always though that bell peppers were a variety of capscicum ?
Funnily enough, my experience is that one does not replace the other. Here, the trend toward huge suburban hypermarkets has been followed by a flurry of mini-marts, effectively duplicating former “corner shops” that were chased out by supermarkets in the first place. But outdoor markets for fresh produce continued and have even multiplied to meet demand for organic produce. I can’t see you losing your local bazaar, which is lucky for the colourful photos (Walmart would just not be the same)!
nice first picture.BTW, sidhusaaheb, they are capsicums and not tomatoes;).
I can’t say how well the retail chains will or will not do. However, those photographs are absolutely brilliant, in my opinion! Never have I seen tomatoes look so good before…