During the mid-afternoon yesterday, Bangabandhu National Stadium Market of Gulistan in Dhaka was really overcrowded with customers, who were desperately looking for buying cooling home appliances including fans, air coolers and air conditioners as the heat wave is still sweeping the country, putting the life of the people in a real misery.
But, many of the buyers were failed to buy their desired products as the showrooms owners could to deliver them the cooling appliances, which have gone out of their stock due to the sudden rise of sales in the wake of the scorching summer, which continues for the last few weeks.
“I have come here from Mohammadpur to buy a Walton brand air conditioner, but there has been no stock left to purchase. Besides, the price of other brands also shoots up comparing to the three weeks before when I had visited the same place,” said Dilruba Zaman.
She also alleged that some unscrupulous traders made an artificial crisis of the cooling appliances in the market just to push the prices up for making a huge profit in short time. The mad rush of the buyers continued to increase as the country’s temperature has been increased for the last few weeks. On April 24, Dhaka has experienced the highest temperature by reaching the mercury at 40.2 degree celcius, which is highest in the last 54 years.
Admitting the shortage of the cooling appliances, manager of the Singer showroom Aslam Hossain noted that the stock of air coolers and fans were finished last week and still there were only some ACs to sell.
“We are selling at least 15 air conditioners each day. If we could stock more cooling products, we would have been able to sell 500 units of air coolers and fans in a week,” he said.
While visiting the markets and some retail showrooms at the capital, it was found that buyers were looking for air conditioners and air coolers, but most of them were looking for the local made home appliances as these are less expensive.
However, the cooling appliances were out of the market due to the sudden mad rush of the customers.
“As the temperature increased suddenly in the last week, people are now mostly looking for purchasing air coolers and air conditioners. But, we don’t have any more stock left to sell,” said Md Sharifullah, assistant manager at Walton Plaza at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall.
Anwarul Islam, branch manager at Gulshan branch of Butterfly said the sales of air conditioners had been increased unbelievably all on a sudden. He, however, declined to disclose about the sales volume of his branch.
Source: UNBConnect
