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Shoppers desert Anna Regina market

Dec 24, 2013 News

 

The trend of shopping mere days before Christmas Day is a norm. For many, and Essequibians are included, tend to become caught up in all the late hustle and bustle. However, walking through the Anna Regina old market where the hub is supposed to be, there was a visible scarcity of persons shopping.
Mohamed, a rice farmer said that the spending power, especially in Region Two, has not been evident due to the fact that many rice farmers have not received payment from millers.
He added that the Region depends mainly on rice and if farmers are not been paid promptly money would not circulate effectively.
Another Anna Regina resident opined that persons on the Coast have adopted the trend of purchasing their goods at Supermarkets, opposed to purchasing in the markets. The resident added that due to the ineffective flow of electricity, persons are not purchasing commodities in large quantity fearing it may lead to spoilage.
Meanwhile, resident vendors at the Anna Regina old market are complaining that persons are not venturing into the market to make purchases. Vendors on the road shoulders are selling the same commodities that could be bought in the market. This is hampering critical sales.
One vendor selling on the roadside has however indicated that persons prefer to purchase from vendors on the road shoulders because they save more compared to purchasing from vendors in the market.
“They are doubling their prices so people go where they can get bargain and save.”
Resident vendors have said that it is unfair, since those vendors usually occupy the Cotton Field market on Fridays.
Diane Critchlow, Town Clerk of the Anna Regina Municipality, has indicated that vendors from the Cotton Field market were granted permission to vend only during the Christmas season after which they would have to return to the stalls inside the market, one day per week at the Cotton Field market come January.
Critchlow explained that all street vendors are obligated to pay a standard daily fee.
Anna Regina is the hot spot where persons from sections of the Region venture to do their Christmas shopping.

 

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