I thought a Baby Fair should be full of bargains for maternity and baby related stuff. But over the past 3 years, I find that the objective of organizing a Baby Fair is no longer there and is somewhat diminishing. It has become so commercialised (money making oriented I mean) that you don’t get good deals but forced to get some deals. Here’s what I mean.
I still remembered going to the Baby Fair 3 years ago with full of excitment. There were exhibitors from diapers company, milk powder company and baby and materinity related companies. I was able to ask and get information and feedback from the diapers that babies are using as well as milk powder that my baby might be consuming. I still remembered that there was a quite a few booth selling baby cot and I could get mine from the fair as well. Of course, there were booth setup by insurance and beauty companies as well, targetting young parents to get their financial plans for their little ones and for the mummies to look good after their pregnancy. But that seem to be the last baby fair that I enjoyed going.
Since then, the objective of the baby fair has somewhat been lost, less companies are exhibiting or promoting relevant baby stuff, less diaper and milk powder companies were on too. What we see now? More people selling insurance. I mean there are still booths selling baby clothes and dresses, but personally, I don’t think that’s enough and it just don’t make the baby fair complete. And how long did we take to complete exploring the fair, less than 30 minutes.
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i think it’s the same for other type of exhibitions too. not all informative when you can discover new things. it’s the same booth by big companies you see everywhere.
Just out of interest, In South Africa we have no social security or state pension to speak of. This makes it even more important to consider ones financial future when baby is born. Medical aid, like insurance and educational investments are prominent at our baby expo the “Baba Indaba”. Interestingly the current recession appears to have hit the bigger institutions harder seeing them cutting budget and not exhibiting. The little businesses are doing what they can to boost sales and are still signing up to exhibit. The result: fewer great specials from the big guys but lots of interesting stuff from the smaller exhibitors…..