Central Region Traders Attribute Poor Sales To Delay In SHS Placement.

Business centers in the Central Region that sell trunks, mattresses, chop boxes and provisions are recording low turnout ahead of the reopening of Senior High Schools.

At the regional capital, Cape Coast, where most of the second-cycle institutions are located,reporter Timothy Gaison observed only a few parents with their children buying items.

Meanwhile, most of sales items are packed in front of shops.

One shop owner at the Cape Coast-Ankaful Station, Auntie Grace, attributed the situation to the delay in the school placement and reopening system, which she says has significantly affected their sales.

She also revealed that schools and parents now prefer rubber trunks and rubber chop boxes to the traditional wooden chop boxes and metal trunks.

Another trader, Madam Afia Acquah, who says she has been in this business for years, described this year’s reopening season as the worst she has ever recorded.

According to her, sales during the period when first-year students report to school have never been this low.

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