{"id":58251,"date":"2024-12-20T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58251"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:47:05","slug":"yuletide-abuja-retailers-decry-low-sales-amid-hardship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/20\/yuletide-abuja-retailers-decry-low-sales-amid-hardship\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuletide: Abuja Retailers Decry Low Sales Amid Hardship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clothing retailers in Arab Road Market, Kubwa, Abuja, have lamented poor patronage barely six days to Christmas, attributing the decline to the harsh economic conditions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>David Onyebueke, a children\u2019s clothing and footwear dealer, blamed the situation on delayed December salaries for civil servants, who make up a significant portion of his customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany civil servants prioritize transportation and feeding over clothes. Last year, sales were better at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are praying for improvement and urge the government to pay the new minimum wage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Ekene Ugochukwu, another trader, revealed that some customers sought to buy on credit due to unpaid salaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t sell on credit. Things are hard for business owners like us; we\u2019ve invested so much in goods, but buyers are scarce,\u201d she lamented.<\/p>\n<p>For Mrs. Daisy Idaghe, a seller of fairly used children\u2019s clothing, the focus on food rather than clothing is impacting her business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bale of clothes I bought for \u20a6300,000 last year now costs \u20a6700,000. Prices are high, and customers are not coming,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mrs. Ezinne Kalu expressed gratitude for the little sales she made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness improves daily, and I thank God. We also need to pray for our leaders for God to touch their hearts to implement policies beneficial to everyone,\u201d she advised.<\/p>\n<p>Traders continue to hope for better sales as the festive season progresses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Clothing retailers in Arab Road Market, Kubwa, Abuja, have lamented poor patronage barely six days to Christmas, attributing the decline to the harsh economic conditions in the country. David Onyebueke, a children\u2019s clothing and footwear dealer, blamed the situation on delayed December salaries for civil servants, who make up a significant portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58253,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58251\/revisions\/58253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}