Eid shopping has peaked at different shops, shopping centres and markets in the Khulna city, with female buyers outnumbering their male counterparts.
Sales of saris, garments, footwear and cosmetics are now remarkable at New Market, Aarong, Western Plaza, Daulatpur Market, Save and Safe, Khulna Shopping Complex, Malek Chamber, Jalil Tower, Rob Shopping Complex, Mashiur Rahman Market, Alo Super Market, Bhasani Market and Suhrawardy Market.
Huge crowd is also seen at the footpath shops, where the low-income group rush to pick their choices of dress and other goods on the occasion of Eid.
The shopkeepers 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 well-to-do people from other districts, especially Bagerhat, Satkhira, Jessore and Narail, have been rushing to the fashionable shops and shopping centres.
Among saris, cotton saris priced from Tk 350 to Tk 2,500, jamdani from Tk 2,000 to Tk 4,500, appliqué and block from Tk 1,000 to Tk 2500, designed net, half-georgette and half-tissue from Tk 2,500 to Tk 6,000, georgette from Tk 1,500 to Tk 10,000 are among the most popular articles, said Md Wahidullah, owner of Palki, a sari shop at Jalil Tower of the city, adding that the price of the saris are slightly higher this year.
Among the dresses of the girls, different types of cotton, especially Bangladeshi cotton dresses, priced between Tk 1,500 and Tk 2,500, are very popular this year, said Shwakat Apu, owner of girls’ dress shop Latest Corner at Khulna Shopping Complex.
The other popular dresses among girls are 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, he said, adding that the prices of the articles have risen by Tk 400 on an average.
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.
Popy Begum, a housewife on Sir Iqbal Road in the city, who came to the city’s Jalil Tower to complete her Eid Shopping, said she had bought a cotton sari at Tk 1,800 for herself and a three-piece at Tk 1,500 for her only daughter but the prices were higher by at least Tk 300 than the previous year.
