Traders cry over low patronage of commodities

Scores of traders in Accra metropolis have registered their disquiet about how poor sales have become as the yuletide season approaches.

Today’s investigations revealed that traders were complaining about poor patronage of their wares.

According to some traders, selling products in the scorching sun was really tedious.

A soap seller, Aunty Fosua, complained that patronage of her soap had gone down for some months now.

Earlier, when Today visited traders at Avenor, a suburb of Accra, some traders who could not hide their frustrations, blamed the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for worsening the economic situation in the country.

Meanwhile, a phone dealer at Kwame Nkrumah Circle told our reporter that “for some days now business has been going smoothly and our phones a running fast compared to last year.”

Cosmetic shops were not left out in the frustration as they also made the complaint about the fast falling of the cedi.

At the Neoplan Station at Kwame Nkrumah Circle a driver told Today that business was moving on well.

“Last year [2013,] business was really bad but now as you can see we now have additional buses because the booking of tickets has gone up,” he said.

In some parts of the Mallam Atta Market in Accra on our second visit, prices of foodstuff were still the same.

Today further discovered that while some traders were happy with their sales, second-hand cloth sellers were having challenges with sales as people were not patronising their goods.