City abuzz with Eid shoppers

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Shopping centres as well as the footpath shops of the capital are buzzing with shoppers as Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest festival of the Muslims, is only one or two days ahead.

“Many things are yet to be bought and the time is very short. So I am buying anything I find in front,” said housewife Mina, who came to Gawsia Market from Mirpur yesterday.

On a footpath shop beside the Gawsia Market, she was choosing sandal-shoes for his two sons.

She will also go to the Priyangan Shopping Centre to buy readymade shirts and pants for his sons after shopping at Gawsia, she said.

Footpath shops that sell cheap cosmetics and imitation jewellery are popular to the low-income customers.

Oxidised and golden earrings and chains costing Tk 50 to 200 are selling very well, said Rakibul, a footpath hawker.

Footpath shops selling ladies’ bags and plastic products were also seen busy with customers.

“The sale is open, only for fifty,” Chan Mia was calling customers pointing to the colourful hand-bags that he sells on his footpath shop.

The new items for kids are selling well before this Eid, he said.

But Chan Mia, who is making many kids happy by selling colourful bags, could not manage to buy anything to make happy his own children, who live in Comilla.

Chan Mia said he will go to Comilla the day after the Eid and by the time he will try to buy clothes for his children.

Especially young and teenage women gathered at the cosmetics shops for accessories matching with clothes.

“I have come to buy matching imitation jewellery ignoring this huge crowd as Eid fashion would be incomplete without earrings, finger ring and punch clip,” said Runa, who works at a private company in Motijheel.

She bought clothes last Friday and came to Eastern Plaza for cosmetics shopping yesterday.

“As I work long hours outside, I have to look forward to a holiday to do shopping and now only two days are left before the Eid,” she said.

Shop owners and salesmen of cosmetics shops, however, said their sale was much better last year.

“Amid severe price hike of daily essentials, it has become difficult to survive, let alone buying earrings of Tk 600-1200,” said Manik, salesman of Mayabi Cosmetics at Eastern Plaza.

Many customers are gathering at the shopping centres at this late hour as they work outside Dhaka. Besides, the service-holders have to wait for Eid bonus and holidays.

Now the time is so short that there is hardly any scope for bargaining, said a customer.

Azad, who works in Chittagong, came to his Uttara residence on last Friday. He came to the Eastern Plaza market for buying saree for his sister.

The shoe market at Chourongi Bhaban on Elephant Road was seen crowded as people of all ages were looking for suitable shoes.

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