Eid shopping picks up in dists

RAJSHAHI, Apr 30 (BSS): As the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of the Muslims, is knocking at the door, shopping in all the malls and markets and its adjacent areas here has reached in peak amidst a huge rush of shoppers in the last moment of the Eid shopping spree.
With attraction of eye-catching colour and design of the silk wears, a large number of people irrespective of age and sex especially the adolescents are humming towards the showrooms to complete the last moment's collection of their best choice.
Silk fabrics, woven and designed by local artisans, are in huge demand in the Eid markets, with the affluent people rushing to the city silk showrooms every day.
Thousands of people are purchasing items of their own choice with huge enthusiasm despite the significant rise in prices of all kinds of clothes compared to the previous couple of years.
Besides, low income people are crowding in various footpath shops and small shops as prices here are a little bit lower than the big shopping malls.
Eid shoppers flocked to shopping malls and other business hubs like Shaheb Bazar, RDA Market, New Market, Haragram Bazar, BSCIC Silk Showrooms, Sonadighi Silk Market and Gonokpara Shopping Centre of the divisional city.
They came with friends and families to pick up dresses, putting smiles on the traders' faces. Businessmen expressed satisfaction over the sale of the Eid clothes, shoes, cosmetics and other goods and hoped that the sales would continue till the night before the Eid-ul-Fitr day.
The movement of the shoppers has created huge traffic congestion in the major shopping areas. Sekendar Ali, general secretary of RDA Market Businessmen Association, told BSS that sales were showing an upward trend since the last couple of days.
A Rangpur report adds: After two years, since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Eid markets are seeing record sales amid huge rush of buyers this year here at the last moment ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festivity.
Leaders of different trade bodies and traders said Eid shopping has now reached the peak amid tight security measures at all markets, shopping malls, complexes and centres and makeshift roadside markets.
Selling of Eid items has marked an all-time record despite higher prices this year following continuous improvement in the economic conditions of common people in the urban, sub-urban and rural areas.
Presently, markets have worn festive looks with rushing men, women, girls, boys, adolescents, students and youths to buy Eid items and their movements have created traffic jams in the city.
Rangpur Metropolitan Police has tightened security measures and launched special road traffic systems to enable rushing people to the markets easily without any untoward incident in the city.
Members of police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13 and intelligence personnel are being found patrolling markets, shopping malls and centres both in uniforms and plain clothes in the city.