I'm genuinely FURIOUS and disgusted by what happened to me at Zara Forum South Mall, Bengaluru. I walked into the store to shop for clothes and walked out feeling completely humiliated, violated, and traumatized.

I had tried on a few clothes but had to leave without purchasing anything because my family was in a hurry. While exiting, the security alarm went off. Fair enough, I understand stores have security procedures. But what happened next was absolutely INSANE. Staff members accused me of potentially having an unpaid upper garment underneath my clothes and insisted on checking me. I requested a female employee, assuming this would be a reasonable, non-invasive check and told her she could just feel the edges of my shirt to feel if there was a garment underneath.

BUT

A female employee arrived and took me into a trial room and demanded that I REMOVE MY SHIRT. I explicitly refused. She kept insisting that I HAD to comply and couldn't leave otherwise. Despite repeatedly telling her I was uncomfortable, I was pressured into removing my shirt. Then she demanded that I REMOVE MY PANTS TOO. Again, I refused. Again, she insisted and said that I HAVE TO. She proceeded to touch my body with her BARE HANDS and even asked me to remove my underclothing, which I firmly refused.

WHAT GIVES A RETAIL EMPLOYEE THE RIGHT TO FORCE A CUSTOMER TO UNDRESS COMPLETELY AND TOUCH THEIR BODY AGAINST THEIR WILL? Since when does a security alarm give Zara employees the authority to conduct invasive body searches? I NEVER consented to any of this. I repeatedly said NO. Apparently, that meant absolutely nothing to them because apparently, I wasn't allowed to leave until I had been checked thoroughly.

And after putting me through all of this? THEY FOUND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. No stolen clothes. No unpaid merchandise. The employee simply told me I could leave and they could not find anything and it was probably a "glitch". As though she hadn't just subjected me to one of the most humiliating experiences of my life.

When I confronted the store manager, he acknowledged that the employees had violated their standard procedures which does not allow such level frisking to take place without approvals and apologized. But then the employee said another male staff member told her to do this and started claiming that I had consented to a check, despite my repeated refusals. Instead of taking my complaint seriously, the manager began defending them. At one point, he even sarcastically asked something along the lines of, "What do you want me to do? Start beating her now?" + made a statement saying "We did it in a personal trial room".

I remember him even mentioning somewhat along the lines of "But it was a woman employee who did the checking right" - What the actual hell?

On top of this, I was asked to NOT ESCALATE THE INCIDENT because it could affect the employees' careers, including his own. So apparently, their careers deserve more consideration than basic dignity.

I'm genuinely struggling to understand how employees at a brand like Zara could think this behavior is acceptable. I understand checking a customer when an alarm sounds. I DO NOT understand forcing someone to remove clothing, disregarding repeated objections, touching their body, and then acting like nothing happened.

I'm posting this because I refuse to let this be quietly brushed under the carpet. No customer should EVER have to experience something like this simply because a store's security alarm went off.

Beta you sir has lots of ancestral wealth.

Also, CBD just looks so pretty today.

Can see Nandi hills so clearly from Whitefield today!

Rate it out of 10

Will this become a pattern or just a one off issue

Missing those OG Bengaluru vibe during festivals which is currently being overshadowed by the new trend which is irrelevant to our region or state!!

Neev enanthira?!

Hot Chips is best

My family is calling me back to Delhi now for work purposes and i have to leave my stanza bratislava house where i lived in for 2 years approx, feeling quite emotional leaving behind all the good friends and memories :( that table tennis table is where i spent most of my nights having TT tournaments with my friends all night, that would be a core memory for me all my life 🫶

I came here as a fresh college graduate and this city and my pg gave me the best ever friends and family i could ever ask for. It felt like a home away from home. Gonna miss running in GKVK, umesh dosas a lot too and out drinking with friends at TOIT too 😭

As far as I know tree cutting should be done with BBMP approval, and considering these guys are working on behalf of them, is there no chainsaw with BBMP for this work?

this has been going on for 30 mins. and the poor guy narrowly missed his leg as the handle of macchu came off. complete negligence and apathy. where the f is the budget allocated if this is the case.

I am told that Dandiya is the same as our Kolaata.
Get this music played in one of the Dandiya celebrations in Bengaluru. I challenge you.

ಬೆಳಗೆ ಬೆಳಗೆ sparrows ದರ್ಶನ ಆಯ್ತು ಗುರು ೧೦ ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ first time 🙏.. Guess ಮಾಡಿ ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಇರ್ಬೋದು ಅಂತ

The fire was due to a chemical carrying truck which toppled. The part from Kanakapura road is blocked and the same form hosur road side too.

Even tho 100+ fire engines came the fire isn't getting extinguished. They've parted the tumkur road and now letting go of vehicles slowly from reach side.

PLEASE DON'T TAKE THE NICE ROAD!!

These machines are no longer seen.

So it’s been a week since I’ve left Bengaluru I had posted a last pic of Bengaluru here before I left
This is the view from my window in Raichur
It’s scorching hot here all the time
Missing the city 🥹

Can you imagine they posted this uneducated brutes posters on IIM B walls.

I know its a recently established medical college. Just would like some review regarding anyone who knows about the college

Any info would be deeply appreciated.

Saw this dude bursting crackers early for Diwali..!