Eid-shopping in Rajshahi markets has picked up with people rushing to the shops, shopping centres, markets, business centres and makeshift shops on roads.
A huge number of people of different ages from every walk of life are coming to the market to buy dresses, clothes and others products for celebrating Eid, sellers said.
They said sales of saris, garments, cosmetics, shoes, sandals, ornaments, gift products have peaked at Rajshahi Saheb Bazar Market, city New Market, Index Plaza, Laxmipur Market, Jamal Super Market, Court Market, Binodpur and Rani Bazar Market although the prices of clothes were higher than the previous years.
Huge crowd is also seen at the footpath shops, where the low-income group people rushed to pick their choices of dresses and other goods on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslim.
The sellers said this year their sales were better than other years. The prices of the goods and articles were, however, higher, said the buyers and sellers at different markets.
A good number of moneyed people from other districts, especially Chapainawabganj, Naogaon, Natore, have been rushing to the fashionable shops and shopping centres of in the Rajshahi city.
Among different kinds of saris, cotton saris are priced from Tk 400 to Tk 2,500, jamdani from Tk 2,000 to Tk 4,500, appliqué and block from Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,500, designed net, half-georgette and half-tissue from Tk 2,500 to Tk 6,000, georgette from Tk 1,500 to Tk 10,000 in the Rajshahi Eid markets, said sellers at different markets.
The other popular dresses among girls are Waka Waka priced between Tk 1,200 to Tk 2,200 and Octopus of the same price, Masak Kali priced between Tk 3,500 and Tk 5,500, Sania Mirza between Tk 3,500 and Tk 6,500, designed Biscos between Tk 5,500 and Tk 8,000 and designed nets between Tk 5,000 and Tk 8,000, they said.
Cotton and silk punjabees, priced from Tk 400 to Tk 2,000, are very popular this year, said sources in the markets, adding that the jeans pants and foreign clothes for pants and shirts are on high demand.
Meanwhile, the rich people were going to the Sapura Silk Industrial area for buying silk products. Sellers of silk products said the number of silk products buyers had been increased as the Eid is knocking at the door.
Md Alauddin, manager of Amena Silk, told New Age that the sales of Padma Silk Katan was high than the others silk products. Padma Silk Katan is priced from Tk 3,000 to Tk 5,000, he added.
Humayra Khatun, a housewife of the city’s Dargapara area, who came to the city’s New Market for her Eid shopping, told New Age that she had bought a cotton sari at Tk 1,800 for herself and a three-piece at Tk 1,500 for her younger sister but the prices were higher by at least Tk 300 than the previous year.
