Rainfall hampers Eid shopping
Thursday, 17 September 2009
FE Report
The city-dwellers are being deprived of shopping opportunity in the run upto the Eid festival due to rainfall in the last three days.
Traders at different city markets said they were having a poor turnout of customers over the past three days.
On the other hand, traders at the city's makeshift markets told the FE that their sales had drastically fallen over the last couple of days due mainly to rainfall.
According to met office, Dhaka experienced 12 millimetres of rainfall on Wednesday. It was 45mm on Tuesday and 8.0mm on Monday.
Sharmin Laila of Wari told the FE that she had been trying to go to shopping centres for the past two days. But she could not make way simply because of rains.
Iftekhar Ahmed of Bibir Baghicha in Jatrabari area said: "Continual rainfalls at the end of the Ramadan are really disturbing me. I've almost completed Eid shopping, but this rainfall is really disgusting."
A salesman of Westecs at Basdhundhara City, the country's largest shopping mall, said their sales had dropped sharply over the past three days although they offered a 10 per cent discount on shirts.
A saleswoman at the Yellow, a sister concern of leading conglomerate Beximco Limited, at Dhanmondi said their sales also dropped partly due to rainfall.
But she expressed the hope that the customers would throng their showroom in the remaining days.
Helal Uddin, president of Dhaka Mohanagar Dokan Malik Samity, told the FE: "Rainfall is a natural phenomenon but our fellow members are being deprived of good sales this year."
Helal, however, expressed his hope that the customers would come in large numbers to the city markets in the remaining days, which might compensate the losses incurred due to the rainfall.
Monir Uddin, a hawker in front of GPO, said: "Our customers usually throng makeshift markets just one week before the Eid. But the rains are now keeping them away from last time shopping."
He claimed that their sales dropped almost 50 per cent over the past three days.
The city-dwellers are being deprived of shopping opportunity in the run upto the Eid festival due to rainfall in the last three days.
Traders at different city markets said they were having a poor turnout of customers over the past three days.
On the other hand, traders at the city's makeshift markets told the FE that their sales had drastically fallen over the last couple of days due mainly to rainfall.
According to met office, Dhaka experienced 12 millimetres of rainfall on Wednesday. It was 45mm on Tuesday and 8.0mm on Monday.
Sharmin Laila of Wari told the FE that she had been trying to go to shopping centres for the past two days. But she could not make way simply because of rains.
Iftekhar Ahmed of Bibir Baghicha in Jatrabari area said: "Continual rainfalls at the end of the Ramadan are really disturbing me. I've almost completed Eid shopping, but this rainfall is really disgusting."
A salesman of Westecs at Basdhundhara City, the country's largest shopping mall, said their sales had dropped sharply over the past three days although they offered a 10 per cent discount on shirts.
A saleswoman at the Yellow, a sister concern of leading conglomerate Beximco Limited, at Dhanmondi said their sales also dropped partly due to rainfall.
But she expressed the hope that the customers would throng their showroom in the remaining days.
Helal Uddin, president of Dhaka Mohanagar Dokan Malik Samity, told the FE: "Rainfall is a natural phenomenon but our fellow members are being deprived of good sales this year."
Helal, however, expressed his hope that the customers would come in large numbers to the city markets in the remaining days, which might compensate the losses incurred due to the rainfall.
Monir Uddin, a hawker in front of GPO, said: "Our customers usually throng makeshift markets just one week before the Eid. But the rains are now keeping them away from last time shopping."
He claimed that their sales dropped almost 50 per cent over the past three days.