{"id":277901,"date":"2016-12-19T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277901"},"modified":"2016-12-19T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T10:48:19","slug":"christmas-shopping-picks-up-massively-in-major-markets-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277901","title":{"rendered":"Christmas shopping picks up massively in major markets (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas bug has hit major markets across the country barely a week to Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>A trip back to some of the major markets in Accra for example shows business activities have picked up tremendously.<\/p>\n<p>The euphoria surrounding the festive season was virtually <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/14\/christmas-buzz-missing-in-major-markets-in-accra-audio\/\">missing<\/a><\/strong><\/span> about a week ago when <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> visited some markets to ascertain the situation.<\/p>\n<p>But a similar visit to the Makola market, which is one of the biggest markets in Ghana shows a very colorful market, which has been brought to life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66554 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/index.jpg\" alt=\"index\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is countless display of goods ranging from clothes, shoes, accessories; kitchen and house hold goods, Christmas paraphernalia and many more items.<\/p>\n<p>Some shops that barely had enough on display some days ago had been stocked with all sorts of confectionaries this time round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below to listen to full audio report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/298582510&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A shop owner, Rita, attributed the increased sales to the peaceful elections and the feel of the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems right after the elections declaration sales just soared and most of our goods are sold, so I think it\u2019s the excitement and joy, that\u2019s what I can attribute it to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile another trader Afua, who deals in women\u2019s clothes and hair extensions, described to <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> business is good and anticipated of improved sales even during the festive season proper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to Christmas there are a lot of people in town to shop and I believe that this Christmas in particular will be a good one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The positive development appears to be the same for traders in rice, oil, tin tomatoes and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA short while ago and before the election, business was extremely bad but now with the post election peace and relative stability, business is booming as you can see there are so many people here to shop for Christmas,\u201d a retailer of provisions remarked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66555 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-3.jpg\" alt=\"pic 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it appears not all vendors are cashing in on the business boom.<\/p>\n<p>One of such is Daniel, who deals in children\u2019s clothes, shoes, toys and books.<\/p>\n<p>He tells <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> he is yet to feel the purchase boom his colleagues are experiencing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sales and the market are still below our standard; Christmas is just around the corner but still the sales are low. You can see so many people moving about the market but sales are still low,\u201d he decried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Anita Arthur\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas bug has hit major markets across the country barely a week to Christmas day. A trip back to some of the major markets in Accra for example shows business activities have picked up tremendously. The euphoria surrounding the festive season was virtually missing about a week ago when Citi Business News visited some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":277903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}