“Customer asks for second-hand curtains”
Ali Ükünç, who has been making curtains for 20 years in Osmaniye, said that the purchasing power of my citizen has decreased, so they are experiencing difficulties.
“Business is difficult, the market is stagnant. Ükünç said: “People’s purchasing power has been reduced.
“People are really in serious trouble. These problems inevitably reflect on our merchants. Here we are in a difficult situation. There are really high costs and we are really having problems because of the high costs. When we reflect this back to the client, our clients object.
THE CLIENT’S MONEY DOES NOT GO OUT
– Your purchasing power is already tight. Whether it’s the salary they receive, the salary they work, everything… The system is already there. There is a curtain in the trunk that her mother bought her when she was a child, she is using it now. For example, this year there was neither supply nor demand. We know why the supply and demand didn’t come, we know the curtains are rotten now, we also know they can’t use them right now.
– It is the curtain that covers our shame that closes a house, without the curtain you cannot be at home. But unfortunately, we didn’t see supply and demand in 2022. As a market, we had a lot of problems in this regard. The client has no money, he is worried. He tells us: ‘Do you have second-hand curtains?’ We started hearing these words in Osmaniye. Why? Since the customer cannot really buy, the citizen is in a difficult situation.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A CRISIS
– The food is gone. The costs are at the expense of the fire, you know, people say, there is a fire in the kitchen; There really is a fire in the kitchen. Now, will a person fill his stomach first or do these things? The minimum wage was 8,500 lire. Now, the labor cost of one person is 12 thousand lira, and the cost of 5 men is 60 thousand lira. When you calculate this as rent and so on, we have a cost expense of 100 thousand lira per month.
– Now, when appropriate, make sure that we cannot sell goods worth 100 thousand lira, this is a very serious problem. This is the country’s problem, this is Turkey’s problem. I have been in this trade for 20 years, I saw the 1999 crisis, but I did not see such a crisis.
“THE SITUATION OF PEOPLE IS DEEP”
On the other hand, Dilek Kahraman, workplace marketing manager, said: “We are marketing in Iskenderun, Kadirli, Dörtyol, Düziçi… I take care of the outer fields. People are having such a hard time that we try to sell quality and affordable products. People don’t really have the purchasing power. I saw many people close their stores. There is no sale, the situation of the people is deplorable, ”he said. (PHOENIX)