3 Kg onions over Goa trip: People change preferences amid soaring prices

As onion prices increased to Rs 200 per kilogram, a leading online bus ticketing marketplace has decided to offer onions in list of prizes that customers can win by booking a ticket on ir platform. site Abhibus.com was surprised to see that most customers were choosing onions as a possible prize rar than an all-expense-paid trip to Goa or an I-phone.

Onions over Goa trip

online travel ncy was offering three kgs of onions as a possible prize. According to its reports, 54% of customers on website selected onions as prize while 46% of individuals choose trip to Goa as a prize. This is first time that any prize has trumped trip to Goa on Abhibus website. Previously whenever Abhibus ran that promotion Goa trip beat all or possible prizes. Abhibus will anunce 20 winners every day and if winners had phoned onions as ir reward y will have 3 kilograms of onions delivered to ir homes.

According to Abhibus website, anyone that books tickets on ir website till December 15 can avail this scheme and choose which prize y want. Speaking about decision to add onions to its pool of prizes COO of Abhibus, Rohit Sharma said that his company is constantly invating to try and provide customers with solutions and offers that try to meet evolving needs of ir customers. And that is why Abhibus decided to add onions as a means to show ir customer-centric approach.

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With skyrocketing prices of onions, government of India has been taking reactive measures to ensure that price of onions does t increase furr and that citizens can brea easily. On Monday evening, government's principal spokesperson, KS Dhatwalia, tweeted and said that government had reduced stock holding permits of onions for retailers.

In related news, West Bengal government decided to start selling onions at various ration shops in Kolkata as well as adjacent districts of West Bengal at heavily subsidized rates. As per market sources, retail prices of onions have touched around Rs 164 per kg in city and even in local markets, vegetable is being sold for Rs 130-140 a kg. Government has decided that every family with a ration card will be entitled to 1 kg onion at Rs 59. Over past couple of weeks, state government had been selling onion at Rs 59 a kg from its Sufal Bangla stalls.

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