SECUNDERABAD: Grocery shops, vegetable and fruit outlets, auto-mobile workshops and other stores in Malkajgiri municipal limits have started pulling down their shutter by 6pm as the
customer footfall continues to be low.
Shopkeepers in Mallikarjun Nagar, Dayanand Nagar, Uttam Nagar, Sainikpuri and Neredmet have expressed dissatisfaction over the customer response. “Keeping my grocery shop open is not an inconvenience for any customers but we are not getting even 30 customers in a day.
That is very demoralising as we take a huge risk by opening up the shop,” Dileep, a shopkeeper, told TOI.
A vegetable seller at Uttar Nagar said: “My shop is being sanitized every day in view of the rising Covid-19 cases. But there is very poor response from customers and hence I have decided to close shop by 6 pm.”
A barber is keeping his saloon at Mallikarjun Nagar open till late in the evening only on Sundays. On all weekdays, he closes it by 3pm because of the dearth of customers.