As the festival of lights inches closer, popular shopping destinations are coming alive with people thronging places to purchase everything necessary for the festival.
After a steep fall in sales during the COVID-19 years, markets have been picking up steadily, now seemingly reaching a point of pre-COVID normalcy. With the return of community celebrations, festive needs have grown in demand in the last two years. Alongside festive wear, lamps and pooja items, electronics are also highly in demand since people have a higher tendency of making impulse purchases, according to Suhail Yusuff, the secretary of the Brigade Shop and Establishment Association.
He also said that festive shopping will continue straight from Dasara-Deepavali till Christmas-New Year celebrations, managing to keep a steady spike in sales at a time when it otherwise would have gone down.
