With hardly four days left for Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of Muslims, shopping in Rajshahi city has gained momentum amid huge supply of consumer goods and enthusiasm among the people.
All the city markets are seen very busy, setting up makeshift footpath markets, now to sell their commodities to hundreds of shoppers. The rush of customers at shopping centres starts in the morning and runs till late into night.
According to shop owners, the sale of saris, garments, cosmetics, shoes, sandals, gold ornaments and gift products has peaked at Rajshahi Saheb Bazar Market, New Market, Index Plaza, Laxmipur Market, Jamal Super Market, Court Market, Binodpur and Rani Bazar Market.
The buyers and sellers said the prices of saris, shirts, jeans pants and other popular dresses are higher, in some cases double than the last year’s.
‘Retail price of men’s and women’s wears, both local and foreign, especially Chinese and Indian, rose by 40 to 45 per cent from the previous year,’ said Kabir Hossain, a customer, at Ganakpara market, who resides at Ramchandrapur in the city.
Rubayat Bithy, a student of Rajshahi Medical College, who on Sunday morning went to RDA market, told New Age that as Eid would be held in summer, she wanted to buy local clothes. ‘The prices of clothes have doubled that of previous year,’ she said.
The prices of cotton saris range from Tk 800 to Tk 2,500, jamdani from Tk 2,500 to Tk 5,500, appliqué and block from Tk 1,500 to Tk 3,500, designed net, half-georgette and half-tissue from Tk 2,500 to Tk 7,000, georgette from Tk 5,500 to Tk 10,000 in the city markets, said sellers.
Boys’ popular T-shirt are priced between Tk 250 and Tk 600, girls’ popular dresses are priced between Tk 1,200 and Tk 2,200.
Cotton and silk punjabis, priced from Tk 600 to Tk 2,000, are very popular this year, sources in the markets said, adding that the jeans pants and foreign clothes for pants and shirts were on high demand.
-With New Age input
