Aastha Jain

Hello. Thank you for the opportunity, sir. Sir, I want to understand that why our employee expense has increased so much? Considering that we are not expanding or building new stores in Q2 and Q3 and we also build out the stores, you know, we build out the employees, we add employees two quarters before adding a new store. So, why this quarter the employee expense has increased so much?

But sir, typically when a new store is opened, don't you start incurring the employee expenses about two quarters in advance?

Understood. I also wanted to understand the increase in other expenses. These have risen as a percentage of revenue and currently stand at around 33%, compared to about 21% in Q1 FY26. Could you explain the reasons for this significant increase?