Hierarchy of Prices Locality - wise?

This seems a new concept, where you must pay a life-long price if you are situated in a posh locality. For example Eggs which are normally RS. 20-22/dozen elsewhere are sold at RS. 30/dozen in places like Korengaon Park or Kalyani Nagar. It is not possible to shop for everyday needs far away from residence, so one ends up paying higher prices each. Why this lack in equilibrium? Why aren't these retailers questioned for such hierarchy? Can they do just what they like? Talk about MRP which is more known as "Multiple Retail Pricing" rather than "Maximum Retail Price" You all must have read articles in newspaper and seen commercials on TV highlight the matter. PRINTED MRP on products differ location wise, let alone products like EGGS, RICE, DAL (Pulses) which don't carry MRP on them and can be called an any price by the different retailers.

When there is no longer control on PRINTED MRP, what can anyone say to these small locality retailers?
Are we consumers being taken for a ride? Are we losing the original concept of MRP which was made to protect us consumers from being over priced or cheated by different retailers? Please stop by and drop in your comments on the issues. It is high time we together put a stop to this hierarchy.

Community Portal Pages a powerful outreach strategy

Touching your state, city, town or region

Community pages are an amazing strategy for online outreach which very few people are yet using. The concept is to create a site based on the local community – town, local area/county, state, even a small country. The site must offer the best secular links for the community in a range of categories. It must be a genuinely useful resource at this level. But it also contains appropriate local links in various categories. The more comprehensive it is, the more that people in the area will use it as their one-stop local neighborhood site, maybe setting it as a 'start page' in their browsers, and become frequent return visitors. This portal concept can also be applied to other subjects.

Use a search engine to check on your town name – you will probably be surprised at how many local organizations and groups have sites which could be part of a Community Portal.

A community site can offer links, news and features, in categories such as:

• local shops and businesses
• local entertainment
• restaurants
• schools and education
• tourism
• weather
• local organisations
• transport timetables and information
• women and teens areas
• health
• sport
• spirituality
• local Temples
• religion

There are many other creative ways that a Community Portal could genuinely serve people in its catchment area and build popularity:

• Feature short stories from local writers
• Showcase work of local photographers
• childrends and competitions
• Online Games
• Chat rooms and bulletin boards on specified topics
• Host announcement pages for local organizations if they don't have their own pages
• Sales, wants, and swaps bulletin board
• Local news – though don't overlap with local newspapers if you want their co-operation
• Two-way email discussion lists on matters of local interest
• So please send your feedback in http://www.bangkokscoop.com