gurgaon the metro is beginning to change the game of shopping in gurgaon with the metro opening all the way from delhi to the city footfalls in those malls close to the stations have gone up metro has made commuting easy as a result footfalls have almost doubled said sukhvinder singh salesman at gizmos mgf metropolitan mall he said the store recently added more salesmen to its team handle the crowd and removed the entry door to make products more accessible to the visitors surjit yadav assistant manager at the benetton store in metropolitan said the metro has caused the footfalls in his shop to rise by almost 20 percent with the crowd comprising a majority of college students the onus of converting footfalls into sales lies with our sales team he said the sales figures may not have drastically surged but the malls doing everything they can to cash in on the metro rush by dedicating their ground floors to promotional stalls that engage visitors with free video games massage chairs and other interactions malls are trying to take advantage of the situation we get at least 10000 people everyday at our stall with interesting options like a game of virtual tennis or dart boards the idea is to advertise our brand said dilpreet singh haryana service head of tata green batteries the big gainers however are multiplexes pvr and dt cinemas are eliciting great response from the visitors from around 30004000 tickets being sold during the weekend we now sell over 5500 tickets on saturdays and sundays said a multiplex source the ones who are really not happy are the shopkeepers not so close to the metro stations anybody would prefer to go to metropolitan or dt city centre as the metro stations are close to them we dont see any remarkable rise in footfalls here even though theres a 30 sale on our products said narendra bhandari store manger baluja shoes jmd arcade sahara mall one of the oldest malls in town attracts a large chunk of its customers through its flagship stores big bazaar and haldirams most of our clients are the ones who come here for grocery shopping therefore its unlikely that people travel all the way from delhi for that however the metro has been useful for our employees as most of them live in delhi so not in terms of sales but the metro has helped us said arnav singh salesman woodland the gm of vapour a famous night club and mini brewery in mgf mega city is still waiting for the metro timings to be more party friendly unless it operates for some more hours in the night people wont have the option to ditch the cars while going out to night clubs