WITH LESS than two weeks before Christmas, many vendors and merchants in the Corporate Area are reporting slow sales.
Increased shopping is traditio-nal at this time, however according to several store operators in Cross Roads and downtown Kingston, sales have been less poor. "When we look at the same period last year and compare it to this year we find that more people were shopping then than now," Ryan Anderson, assistant manager of Woolworth, King Street, told The Gleaner.
At Ammar's, King Street, a supervisor who asked not to be named also reported that business has been slow. However, vendors who trade from downtown Kingston are optimistic that there will be improvements in coming weeks.
DIFFICULT TO SHOP
In the meantime a number of consumers who spoke with The Gleaner say they have found shopping more difficult this year, as there is not much money to spend. One woman claiming to be a public sector worker says she has been forced to abandon her usual "massive shopping" this year. "Mi nuh have no money, Government freeze mi salary and put it paan fridge suh mi caan afford fi buy nutten," she noted.
