All Saints serves all. Review on All Saint's Bakery and Departmental Stores, Bangalore

All Saints was started as a bakery on a lesser known stretch of Brigade Road between the confluence of Museum Road and Brigade Road where once stood the Shoolay Police Station and, the junction of Brigade Road with Richmond Road and Lasker Hosur Road. Started by a family which has migrated from Kerala generations back to settle permanently in Bangalore, it was originally a small store which mainly sold bakery products produced by its own bakery. Now after several expansions, though in size relatively small it can be classified as a supermarket which stocks a wide variety of products. It is now called All Saint's Bakery and Departmental Stores taking its name from the All Saints Church located on Hosur Road, Bangalore.

Located outside the shop are a few fruit sellers providing the essential nutrients in fruits to shoppers. There is also a soft drink section outside where one can quench your thirst with branded names such as Thumbs Up, Pepsi and others. When one enters the brightly lit shop, one can spot eggs sold with pastries, breads, buns and other delights from their bakery. If one arrives after the products have just arrived from the bakery you can make your selection from a range of piping hot! buns and breads. It also sells cheeses and various brands of butter stored in two large well stocked refrigerators. Milk sold here is a product of a dairy not under the same management.

The shelves have various cereals ranging from Kelloggs to the once popular Champion Flakes. Oils and other products such as brushes and vessel scrubbers, floor scrubbers are also available for the clean house. Soft drinks and paper plates for the guests are available iin plenty. Wax candles for cakes and power cuts as well as electrical bulbs are also available to light up your life. Vegetables are stocked in plenty along with a few selected fruits. Detergents and soaps are also stocked high along with shoe polishes. Sweets and biscuits vie for consumer attention along with flours, dals, rice other foods and other saviouries. Hills of tea and coffee products are also sold. Closer to the billing counter are sweets for the sweet lovers and also dried raisins and other food condiments.

One also finds various cosmetic and dental care products here along with batteries. At the billing counter where billing is a breeze, a small news stand holding selected news magazines is found. The cash is accepted at a separate desk behind which sits one of the proprietors who tenders change willingly to customers unlike in other shops. Sales personnel manning the shop are extremely courteous and immediately obtain the product requested by the consumer from the shelves or if not on the shelves get it from the stored stocks. This too is unlike other stores where lazy sales personnel claim a product is out of stock without checking.