Sops Take Their Original Shapes After Festive Season

Shops and road side vendors have already gotten over the festive period.

The dust has already settled on the festivity period. Life is return to normal and traders too are getting normal in the sale of their goods. Some have already changed the line of their businesses from seasonal goods to their normal goods. Some make shift shops are fast disappearing and those who sold only seasonal goods and now loosing their businesses because the times have changed. Some sellers have hurriedly changed to selling books as the start of the second term in the school year has begun.
During the festive period, Douala was masked with all kinds of beautiful Christmas lights in the streets, the markets and shops were full of toys, and other gifts and bright lights, Christmas trees and other home decorations. Now these things are gradually disappearing in some shops while in others it has fast disappeared.
Visiting a few shops in town to check out the state of things and what they intend to do with the unsold toys, lights among others. One of the big shops around town has already dismantled the big Christmas tree they had decorated and placed at the entrance of the shop. From the shelves they have taken away all toys and other Christmas gifts and replacing them with old stock before the season changed. The head of this shop who wanted to be anonymous said these things will be kept waiting for December 2009 which will not tarry to come again.
The shop proprietor said these things are very costly and they cannot afford to sell them at a reduced cost, so they would rather keep them and reuse them.
At another big shop in Douala, they still had Christmas stock on their shelves and hope to begin changing the look of the shop in the weeks ahead. Meanwhile they toys are being sold at a very cheap price. They have dropped down prices to drastically do away with the toys; Toys which used to be sold for FCFA 1500 are now being sold at FCFA 100 what a huge difference.
EFFA TAMBENKONGHO