No respite for shoppers at Sunday Bazaars

    LAHORE - The prices of fruit, vegetables and other food items shot up at the Sunday Bazaars this week as compared to the last weeks, as the shoppers failed to get any relief from these weekly markets, set up across the City to provide low-priced food to the low income people.   

There was no difference in the prices of most of the food items including vegetables, fruit, chicken meat and other essential commodities at Sunday Bazaars and open market.

However, the difference in quality was evident to everyone, as lowest quality fruit and vegetables were being sold in these makeshift markets.

Long queues of customers were witnesses in all the Sunday bazaars this week where they rushed to get a flour bag on the officially fixed price of Rs 365 per 20kg bag.

Flour (Atta) was the main commodity in demand at Sunday Bazaars following its prices swelled to Rs 450 per 20-kg bag in the open market. Most of the customers were interested in no other commodity in the Sunday Bazaars than the flour. Ironically, the shoppers complained that the flour supplied to the Sunday Bazaars was substandard.

On the other hand, the prices of fruits and vegetables registered a surging trend this week as compared to the last week.