Damascus-Sana
100% cotton or wool products. This is what distinguishes the textiles that are sold by the general corporations of the textile industries, which have built through the quality of their products trust with their customers and have been able to attract them to their halls from the beginning of their establishment until today, where all these products are manufactured in companies that belong to the Ministry of Industry.
SANA visited one of these halls in the Al-Saba 'area, Bahrat, in Damascus, and looked at its sections that include sections for men, women and boys, ready-made clothes, fabrics, pans, furnishings, underwear, socks and carpets.
The hall includes products for several companies all of which are affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and are intended for cash sale to all citizens, while there are galleries that spend the special cards of employees in addition to direct sale according to the director of the hall, for example Solomon, who reviewed the prices, indicating that the price of the men's kit is from 19 to 20 thousand pounds and the shirt or pants For men, 5,000 pounds. The underwear is of excellent quality between 800 and 900 pounds. The socks are 80 cotton and 20 percent polyester. Their price is between 175 and 200 pounds, and children's socks between 75 and 95 pounds, according to their sizes.
In the special section for linens and sheets, Solomon indicated that the price of a meter cloth for sheets measuring 120 ranges between 1030 pounds and 1470 pounds, according to its quality, size and the thickness of the thread made from it, knowing that they are all made of 100 percent cotton, while the ready-made sheet is sold at 4,500 double pounds and 4000 pounds per person Half and half indicating that the quilt price is single, half 13000 and double 14000 which is of good quality.
Suleiman emphasized that the hall's prices are appropriate and low compared to some of the products on the market.
The pharmacist doctor, Zakat Sada, whom we met inside the hall, and she buys some clothes for her family, she pointed out that she always buys from this hall, given that their goods are guaranteed quality and quality, in addition to the price of underwear is less than the market prices, noting that she bought a carpet last year with 60 thousand pounds saved No less than 20 thousand liras from the market price.
“I did not ask about the price outside the hall because I am sure that the prices are lower than the market price.” In that phrase, Haitham Emadi replied to our question about his opinion about the price of the products in the hall, adding I was encouraged and entered to buy from them because I have previous experience with another company that belongs to the public sector also among employee Abdul Munim Zidan that he always buys underwear from these halls because she sells 100 percent cotton products.
Retired employee Mohammed Al-Ansari, who has lived in Damascus for eight years, prefers to buy pillowcases from natural cotton in the hot summer and this is what prompted him to go to the hall because it is guaranteed quality and the material made of it is completely natural, he said, where he bought one meter per thousand and one hundred pounds.
In the carpet section, Qasim Al-Saidi, head of the department, confirmed that the carpets in the hall are made in the laboratories of As-Suwayda and Damascus, and the percentage of wool in it is one hundred percent, and one square meter is sold for 13 thousand liras, while you will not find this price in the market with the same quality and quality, indicating that the hall witnessed a great turnout year Missed and for the day, even though we are in the summer, some people buy carpets because of their fear of the price hike at the beginning of the coming winter.
Two Khmerian carpets were the request of Adeeb Saleh, who explained that he found his request and bought two carpets measuring 12 by 12 at a price of 13 thousand liras per square meter, explaining that he had previous experience in shopping from the foot area hall from which he also bought a carpet earlier, which prompted him to repeat his experience.
The General Corporation for Textile Industries has 26 public companies spread across most governorates.
Tariq Alsayed and Nour Youssef
