Jordan's extended curfew dents clothing merchants’ hopes to revive plummeting sales ahead of Eid
Published 30 Mar,2021 via The Jordan Times AMMAN — While clothes shopping peaks ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan and Eid Al Fitr, owners of apparel stores in Jordan expect otherwise due to the COVID pandemic.
“A massive catastrophe is approaching,” Tareq Abu Khalaf, an owner of a clothing store in Amman, told The Jordan Times over the phone.
“While summer brings higher sales each year, it is becoming very hard to meet these expectations during the pandemic,” Abu Khalaf said. He voiced pessimism when asked about the current state of “recession” in the clothing sector.
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