KHULNA, May 23, 2019 (BSS) – With only two weeks left for the holy Ed-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, the shopping has started gaining momentum here amid huge supply of consumer goods and enthusiasm among the people for buying.
All the city markets are seen busy now to sell their commodities to the shoppers. Customers are thronging the shopping centres from morning till midnight
The buying spree is likely to continue till the last day of the holy
Ramadan. With the rise in the number of buyers, traffic jam in the city’s
busy market places, road side makeshift markets and intersections,
particularly in front of shopping centers, have become acute.
Retail prices of children, men’s and women’s wear both country made and
foreign especially Indian, rose by 20 to 25 per cent than the previous year.
Markets have been decorated with some of their gates being illuminated with
coloured neon signs.
The volume of transactions is relatively higher this year as the city’s
Boro Bazar, Moshiur Rahman Market, Khaja Khanjahan Ali Hawkers Market, Nixon
Market, Shaheed Sohrawardy Market, Esha Chamber, Akter Chamber, Malek
Chamber, Dawkbangla Super Market, Khulna Shopping Complex, Khan Tower, KDA
New Market, Arong, Safe and Save, KDA Avenue Markets and different shopping
houses were humming with unusual Eid shopping crowd.
Small shops are found more crowded than the big shopping malls. Buyers in
larger numbers, mostly women and children, are crowding the shopping centers
before and after the Iftar.
Prices of different varieties of clothes, particularly cotton, silk and
synthetic have registered a sharp rise although the shops are almost full of
a variety of garments.
A ‘Lehenga’ type Indian cloth made by jorjet with mixing silk and floor
touch long kamij. The cloths are being sold at the cost of Tk 4000 to Tk
15,000.
The goods vary from luxury to household items. Varieties of Indian sarees,
Bootics, Organ De Bootics, Moslin, Sarara, Jamdani, Rajshahi silk and three
pieces also flooded the shopping centers, especially KDA New Market, said
Aliful Haque, owner of Aponjona at KDA New Market.
Most of the rich buyers are crowding different big shopping centers while
the middle-income group people are seen purchasing their desired items from
the Borobazar and Nixon Markets while the low income group people are also
seen purchasing from make shift markets. Shoppers are also frequenting
readymade garment and local made clothes shops. The shops are flooded, with
garments, country made Moslin, Jamdani and Tangail sari with the latest
designs, particularly for children.
The shopkeepers are yet not happy with their present sale and the profit
being earned from the purchasers.
“We will be happy after 17 or 18 Ramadan when people will get bonus and
start marketing for their near and dear ones,” said Emdadul Haque, owner of
Yasmin Sari House at KDA New Market.
Talking to Ayub Hossain, owner of Kushtia Bostraloy of Borobazar area said
that clothes shopping have gained momentum in the market. We become happy as
extortion has almost been disappeared from the city markets due for strict
vigilance by the law enforcing agencies.