Christmas sales great, vendors hoping for New Year’s repeat

A section of Stabroek Market yesterday where shoppers were buying meat and peas for their cook-up rice

This year’s Christmas sales exceeded some market vendors’ expectations and yesterday they were hoping for the same volume and even better in the new year.

Christmas day had come and gone, but there was feverish shopping for traditional ‘Old Year’ and ‘New Year’ items. Yesterday when Stabroek News visited the Bourda and Stabroek markets, some vendors were in high spirits as the items they were selling were in demand by consumers. Shopping was a bit slow at Bourda Market,