Ningbo ushering in a shopping peak after the snow
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:13
After paying new year's call to relatives and friends and staying at home due to the heavy snow, the citizens came out for shopping on the third day of the lunar month. Yesterday, all the shopping malls, supermarkets and specialized sales areas witnessed a busy atmosphere and a small sale peak came for such products as gold, winter clothing, food, tobacco, alcohol and electronic products.
The gold counter of Ningbo Second Department Store was surrounded by a number of customers inquiring about and trying on all kinds of jewelry, especially those dragon-shaped pendants and gold bars. According to a clerk, as people prefer to choose gold crafts as gifts and there are some discounts in price, the sale of gold jewelry has been going up and gold dragon decorations and pendants have been out of stock.
Large shopping malls launched the last round of effective discounts for winter clothing. Major shopping malls and department stores, such as Intime, Ningbo Second Department Store, New Hualian and Oriental Mall, launched such Spring Festival promotion activities as discounts, coupons, credits and lucky draws. The sale of winter clothing in these four stores increased by 5% over the same period last year, no less than that before the festival. "Today is the busiest day of the festival period, especially in the afternoon." said a cashier in the clothing counter in Intime. The most popular clothes are down jackets and cashmere sweaters. With a discounted down jacket costing only three to four hundred yuan, it is a good deal.
In large supermarkets such as Tesco and Auchan, all kinds of gift boxes with dragon patterns are put in some eye-catching positions on shelves. In the Spring Festival sales area, lots of customers are buying glutinous rice balls and seafood.
