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Courtesy: G Rajiv. The New Indian Express
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thanks to their sophisticated modern tastes, techies have spawned a whole lot of alternative lifestyle symbols like pizza joints, coffee shops and even pool bars in and around the Technopark. Now, here is an addition, a condom shop.
For the first time in the country, an IT park is going to have an exclusive shop that will sell just condoms. The country’s major condom manufacturer HLL Lifecare will be soon opening its condom shop at Technopark here.
The decision was taken by the company following the observation that condoms have a major demand among the techies here.The company officials had a visit to the campus and is learnt to have finalised the space for opening the shop.
The Technopark houses over 100 companies and is estimated to have over 10,000 employees.
Many IT majors like TCS and Infosys are also setting up their own campuses here.
With the increasing demand among the IT companies to set up their shops in this part of the state, it is predicted that the condom shop will be a major hit. If it becomes successful, similar condom shops will be extended to other IT parks in the country.
T his is not the first condom shop of the HLL Lifecare in the state. They had opened its first exclusive condom shop in Thiruvananthapuram which broke even long before completing one year of operations. The HLL Lifecare had opened this condom shop on an experimental basis to know the response. With the first shop itself becoming a major hit, the company plans to open such exclusive outlets across the country. Already an array of condom vending machines are being operated by them in the nerve-centres of many cities across the country.
The huge success of the condom shop proves that the stigma surrounding the purchase of condoms from a retail shop is a thing of the past. It also signals the growing awareness of the need for safe sex.
Source: http://expressbuzz.com/biography/coming-soon-a-condom-shop-at-technopark/238374.html
At last that also happend , IT parlour to Sex parlour
Well done guys well done.
Soon instead of IT waste we can witness condom waste and more number of plumber and drainage people get more working days
Biju,
Just come out form the typical mallu narrow mindedness, and selectie ignorance about the things..
What is wrong in setting up a condom shop in technopark? since every single employee working here is above 18 years old. and don’t you think so using it is a part of their daily life, at least for the couples working there?
I dont know why people feels so ashamed by hearing or seeing it, and the funny thing is every one is using the same.
I think this is a good initiative. There are lots of such outlets in every big cities. Even in Cochin and Trivandrum. Usually such shops are functioning near the crowded areas.
Starting such a shop in Technopark is really a good decision, out of nearly 30K workforce, all of them are in their 20s and 30s.So there is a business potential as well as using condoms will protect one from STDs and related deceases.
Ignorance is the risk here, as soon as they hear something like this, the moral polices will come forward and protest, or they at least pass some comments. But they are the prime customers of such products, if you watch them closely.
Throw away our FALSE PROUD.
Dear Biju Kuttan,
Kuttan here.
First of all, no sensible person would dump Condoms in a drain after ‘doing it’.
Then, don’t you use condoms? Assuming you do, where do you buy it from? If you don’t wanna buy it from Technopark, go to a pharmacist in Kazhakuttom.
Also, look for a drain in Kazhakuttom.
Adios…
Thank God!!!!!!!!
No waste in time and petrol…
We hope in-house facilities will be provided soon!!!!
Crap, they must open this in some illiterate area.
Next we need one beverage shop inside technopark !!!!!!! 🙂
Why you guys are feeling ashamed? you people are not using such things in your life? come on guys, Hesitating to accept such things are equivalent to the illiteracy.
@Praveen, Why you said like – ‘Crap, they must open this in some illiterate area.
” Only illiterate people needs to use it? educated people like you won’t affected by the STDs or you guys wont use it?
..@Sam, There is a beverage shop in Technopark…don’t you heard about B6?
It is almost within the technopark campus right? You just need to cross a road, same as you cross any roads withini technopark campus…
Why making such hue and cry over such a thing which has became so common. It is similar to frown at sanitary napkin ads on TV. If educated youth, representing today’s India is making so much fuzz about a condom shop, it shows how orthodox we are.
@ Sibin, could u pls buy one beer @45 from B6 ?? 🙂 So we need one gov . beverage shop inside technoaprk… 🙂
There was a beer parlour within technopark campus eralier( in technopark club ). but due to the external influances of such bar owners, closed that.
Yes villager, even I don’t know why these guys are making such a big Yuck! to a condom shop. Using of condoms will protect them from STDs and we have to encourage everyone to educate about it, no matter whether they are educated or illiterate.
Sibin,
What about opening a Medical Shop inside Technopark? Cant they/you sell condoms there?
We have plenty of shops near technopark who sell condoms.
Educated people doesnt need an advice about using condoms. You know there are online shops run by major brands? (Eg: KS).
I am not against starting a condom shop but about NOT STARTING more useful and urgently wanted initiatives.
Praveen,
HLL Lifecare is planning to open the condom shop on an experimental basis to know the response of IT people, and if it becomes a hit they will open more outlets in other IT parks also. So, lets wait to see the outcome….
They should start few in bus stands and railway stations. They had few vending machines in these places if I remember correctly. Not sure if they still function.
yes vending machines will also work. But still i cant understand why people are such irritated when hearing it?
Every thing has a good side and a bad side. This is true in this case too. Easy availability of guns in US makes its impulsive use very common and lots of gunshot injuries are reported. But access to gun has its advantages too. Likewise while adding convenience , this might also promote in house use of it a little more common than it currently is!
There is an online survey appeared on surveymonkey.com regarding the issue, condom shop @ technopark. Please put your opinion..
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KBV6TYV
Good that it is opening out in technopark. But …. for God Sake pls don’t publish the sales figure’s as the Beverages do after Onam and X-Max…….