Originally posted by: bpatil3
Exactly, I disliked Tulsi here, how on earth can anyone agree for 200%, isn't it stupid business move?? Tulsi ki ankhoan pe patti bandhi hui hai, nalayak bete ki santan ko leke.
It felt weird too Niyati addressing Tulsi mummy ji
Rio naam jitna chota hai usse bada aged wo hai serial me, it's the weirdest n ugliest choice to put him in parallel to Parth the lollipop boy.
Niyati how could she remember Rio when she got her memory back easily??? Weird laggrha hai.
Precap accha hai
It's not about disliking Tulsi or wanting the Viranis to fail. My problem is that the writers seem to be celebrating a business decision without thinking through its implications.
Remember Mihir inaugurating a boutique in Los Angeles approximately 6/7 years ago because it suggested the Viranis were pursuing international expansion with Noina? However, since that happened we've heard nothing about that boutique since, we actually don't know whether it still exists, succeeded, failed, or was quietly forgotten by the writers. To me, despite being someone who has no expertise in economics as a subject in terms of having an economics degree in any shape or form, the deal itself makes very little sense as presented.
The show treats the fact that foreign buyers are willing to pay massively inflated prices as an automatic business triumph. But that's only looking at the first step of the supply chain.
Let's break it down simply.
Suppose the Viranis sell a garment for 500 units of currency.
The overseas buyer then has to pay for:
- Transportation,
- insurance,
- import duties,
- warehousing,
- staff,
- taxes,
- retail operations,
- and their own profit margin.
That means the final consumer price is always going to be substantially higher than the manufacturer's selling price.
Now imagine that, because of current market disruptions, the buyer agrees to pay a hugely inflated amount right at the source. Every subsequent cost is still added on top of that inflated base price. The final retail price rises dramatically.
And here's the issue: the show has never established that the Viranis are some globally recognized luxury fashion house whose customers will pay almost any amount for their products. They're portrayed as a successful garment business, not a brand with limitless pricing power.
Without that kind of brand prestige, consumers care about price.
At some point, customers begin asking - Why should I pay this much for this product when alternatives exist?
If customers stop buying, distributors are left sitting on inventory. If distributors are left sitting on inventory, they stop placing orders. If they stop placing orders, the manufacturer eventually suffers too. That's why I find the celebration so dumb.
Nobody in the storyline seems concerned with:
- whether the distributor can still make money,
- whether the retailer can still sell the product,
- whether the consumer will actually pay the resulting price,
- or whether demand will collapse once prices become detached from reality.
The show treats the highest possible wholesale price as though it automatically equals the best possible business decision. But real businesses don't survive by maximising the price of one deal. They survive by maintaining a supply chain that remains profitable for everyone involved, all the way from the manufacturer to the end customer.
So my criticism isn't that charging more money is inherently stupid. It's that the show presents an inflated wholesale price as an unquestionable victory while completely ignoring the downstream consequences that determine whether the strategy is sustainable in the first place.
In other words, this doesn't feel like clever business strategy. It feels like writers seeing a bigger number on a contract and assuming that bigger number automatically means smarter business. That's not necessarily how markets work and they think the audience doesn’t know that simply because they’re still under the presumption that they’re catering to homemakers and that automatically means that these women are so old that they’re not just uneducated but so ignorant and unaware of how real world economics works that they’ll eat this up, when ironically the end customer of these products aka the clothes are women themselves!
That’s how dumb this whole plot is!
As for Niyati not confusing Rio for Ansh, it’s because the show is not ready to make her deal with logic at any point whatsoever.
Edited by EkPaheli - 14 hours ago
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