Eid 2020 Shopping

Mumbai / Bangalore – Online shopping has started gaining momentum ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr amid its growing popularity with the boom in internet penetration across the country. An increasing number of people, mostly city dwellers, choose e-shopping to save time as well as avoid traffic chaos and other hazards in the busy city life. Like regular shopping malls and other shopping places, online shops also offer discount and other facilities to attract buyers ahead of the biggest religious festival of Muslims. Fatima Sheikh, a sales executive of women's fashion brand Indiwear, said their sales started going up after Shab-e-Barat. “We used to get 850 Eid related orders on average a day before Shab-e Barat, but now we’re getting close to 1500 Eid related orders every day," she said. Fatima expressed hope that the upward trend in sale will continue till Ramadan. She said most of orders Indiwear gets for Eid are for sharara suits, anarkali gowns and silk salwar kameez fro...

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By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar - Markets in Srinagar and other towns in the Kashmir Valley wore a festive look on Friday as Eid shopping reached a high pitch with bakers, sacrificial animal sellers and hosiery shops doing brisk business. Makeshift bakery shops, pavement vendors and hawkers carting their goods have choked all the major roads in Srinagar as traffic policemen threw up their hands surrendering to the merriment of buyers and sellers. Prices were nobody's bother and it looked as if the various regulatory authorities had decided not to play spoilsport while Eid shoppers emptied their purses to the demands of the shopkeepers. Officials of the consumer affairs and public distribution department, however, asserted that market checking squads were out to control prices, but because of staff shortages they were not very conspicuous. Sacrificial animal markets have come up at every imaginable space in the city wherever a herd of sheep and goats can be parked. The tra...