shopping

Swatch's Royal Pop launch triggers consumer frenzy

The watches combining Swatch's pop-art style with Audemars Piguet’s octagonal bezel are resold online at inflated prices

Cold wave amps up Dhaka kitchen market prices

Despite the cold wave subsiding, high prices remain frozen

Rainwater yet to recede from Dhaka’s New Market

“Very few customers are coming due to the water. If there is more rain ahead of Eid, our business will suffer,” trader Al Mujahid says

“Without proper work, we'll have to wear old clothes this Eid”

“I haven’t been able to buy my wife anything for several Eid. Nothing for myself either. But I can’t get by without getting something for the kids,” a rickshaw driver says

High prices drive Eid shoppers away in Dhaka

"Responsibilities have increased after marriage and it seems like clothing prices have too. Everything is just beyond my budget," says a frustrated shopper in Mirpur

Slow sales worry Khalifa Patti tailors

Despite producing new styles of clothing like the “parsi,” Khalifa Patti shops are seeing fewer customers for Eid than in prior years

Eid shopping on footpath

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