Location: Indahpura, Kulaijaya, Johor
Date of Visit: 2nd June 2013
>> Located at the intersection of the North-South Expressway and the Second Link Expressway, this place is officially opened on 11th December 2011. The center is highly accessible to all traffic going to and from Johor and Singapore.
This place comprises a collection of 80 designer and name brand outlet stores. One may ask what's the difference between outlets and normal retails? Keen shoppers can get factory-direct savings of 25% to 65% by shopping in the outlet stores. Would the designs be as new as the ones we saw in the normal retails? Off season goods are normally being channeled to the outlet stores whereas normal retails normally offers newer and in-season goods.
You may get goods that you see in retails the previous year here however, it will still be depending on the buyers luck if the fitable sizes are still be available. The place is swarmed by Singaporeans over the weekends, hence you may also have to fend yourself off from the hordes of money flingers that came here to buy branded goods. It's a familiar sight as the one in Hong Kong whereby mainlanders are doing the same to the locals.
With Singapore's currency so much superior than the puny Malaysian Ringgit, I must admit that by looking at how they spend is extremely crazy and sometimes brainless. This also leads to another problem. When you walk into a branded store such as Burberry for example, the sales personnel will eye you from top to bottom before deciding to serve you or not. Yep! They will just stand there and look at you for a second or two.
If you are wearing cheap clothes and slippers on the day you go visiting, you'll get the same treatment as I've personally encountered. Zero attention. On the opposite side, if you are dressed by branded goods from head to toe, you'll be immediately attended to. The double standard is extremely obvious that left me fuming after visiting such stores. Another issue that's being observed... the rich queuing up to get designer bags.
It's quite ironic to see them being so desperate and raring to go into the store by queuing up in the searing heat for almost an hour. If anyone asks me to queue, I'd seriously tell them to go f**k themselves. I'd rather come back the next time when the crowds are less like the weekdays. The visiting experience at the outlet made me think if outlet shoppers would kill themselves just for the sake of a good bargain over branded goods. Chances are, they might!
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