Damascus-SANA
The school supplies and stationery pavilion in the family market in the old exhibition city in Damascus, which includes many pavilions, is witnessing a remarkable turnout by families to buy the supplies and needs of their children students with the approaching opening of the school year, especially with the discounts and discounts offered by participating companies in order to reduce the living burdens on Syrian families.
In a statement to SANA’s representative, Muhammad Nafees, owner of the “Dora” company for the manufacture of bags, said: “We participated in the family market, which is organized by the Damascus Chamber of Industry and its countryside, in cooperation with the governorate of Damascus, with our products of school bags that suit all stages, in multiple forms, new features, and a guarantee for a full academic year and at distinct competitive prices. The sale is done directly from the producer to the consumer without any intermediary, with discounts that reach 50 percent depending on the products sold, which increases the turnout.
For his part, Ibrahim Al-Shaabi, owner of Al-Shaabi Company for Stationery and School Supplies, said in a similar statement that his participation in the family market includes everything related to students for all grades of stationery, school tools and bags at competitive prices and discounts ranging between 15 and 25 percent and sometimes up to 35 percent, which is beneficial to the The merchant and the consumer who earns the price difference by buying from the product directly and at the wholesale price.
While Hadia, owner of the Newgodi company for clothing, explained that her participation in displaying her company’s products of school clothes, in different types of fabrics and sizes, at discounted prices from its counterpart outside the exhibition, sometimes by up to 50 percent, which benefits the buyer and seller in terms of reducing the amounts paid by the buyer and increasing The percentage of sales for the merchant, indicating that the increasing turnout is evidence of the success of the exhibition.
Issa Khattab, a visitor to the family market, said: “I noticed the discounts in prices, as I am the head of a family and my children are in the study stages. They need requirements at the beginning of each new school year, and so are markets and events that suit the Syrian family and reduce the burden on the family, especially the burden of moving between markets and shops to obtain needs. And shopping in the family market that contains all the needs at good and reasonable prices.
Aya Mortada, a student in the ninth grade, who visited the family market with her family to shop. She said: I came to the fair with my family to buy my school needs at the beginning of the new school year, and I noticed the clear difference in prices from those outside the market, and I hope that the idea of establishing such a market will be repeated as it reduces the financial burden for The family is also an opportunity to bring all the necessities from one place, see the various products and choose what we want.
Inaam Hassan pointed out that in the family market there are materials that are cheaper than the normal market price at a good rate.. We came to the market to shop for school supplies for my children, food and winter supplies.
Ahmed Suleiman and Louay Hosamou
