By Chelsea Amy Grant and Rhoda Yorke
The Christmas season is here again and as expected business is booming for many. The major markets are full of shoppers for the festive season. Visiting the Accra shopping mall, sellers told GBC News that prices of yuletide paraphernalia have increased.
While Christmas staples like rice and oil have the prices also shooting up.
Some buyers say they’ve not started Christmas yet because there’s no money.
Traders are optimistic sales will spike in the coming days.
”I don’t really have enough money to purchase anything. It is okay, maybe next year will be better”.
”People are buying but not all the time but sometimes on the weekends from Friday to Sunday”.
Last year was a bit better than this year, last year by this time, people were buying but this year the market is not as good as last year, we have the things but they are not buying as last year”.
”This year we see a lot of people coming to buy a lot of things for their children and we are hoping for more changes so that we can have a lot of things for people to buy. Prices have changed. We can have a lot of things so that we can say a lot of things have changed from last year”.
Things are really challenging and very tough compared to last year. This season, prices have really shot up due to the Covid”.
”Things have really changed, we buy things at the shop and it is getting close to expiration. People don’t come but, the prices are really shooting up, it is getting close to Christmas and it doesn’t even look like it”….
….as some traders and shoppers share their views on shopping for Christmas shopping.
