Coimbatore: The day before the reopening of schools and colleges for physical classes, stationery and seller of a school bag near five angle intersections at the City Hall report poor sales.
The shops were packaged with students and parents on such days did not have the usual excitement on Tuesday.
While sales were picked up after the state government announced that schools and colleges will be reopened on September 1, it’s less than usual, the shop owner said.
They ensure poor sales due to lack of money flow and possible closure of educational institutions if new cases increase again.
Mohamed Shafeeq, 40, from a modern bag, said there was no rush among people to buy a bag.
“There were several businesses during February this year when schools and colleges were reopened after the first wave.
However, the institution was closed again in April due to the second wave.
Most of them will not use the bag purchased later.” Other bag sellers, pbrahim , from Lucky Bag, say even though the cost of the bag has dropped 10-15%, there isn’t much request for a bag in the past few days.
Most middle-income groups to the middle and bottom that came to shop for five angles, but they were hit hard by a pandemic, he said.
Jaya Kumar, owner of Suguna Nilayam, a stationery shop popular at the intersection, said sales remained low because the shop reopened six weeks ago.
“Before school begins, students will get a separate notebook for each subject, buy the cover to wrap it up and attach the name sticker on it.
However, this time, there is no coercion like that.” While there is a flow of pen sales and paper used during online classes when The school is closed, we have to wait and see how things appear in the coming days for the sale of notebooks and other items to be taken, said SP Vimala, the owner of another stationery store.