Soon as a shopper enters a bazaar, the first thing he comes into contact with, is noise, confusion and crowd. He finds the bazaar alive with the cries of venders, smell of cattle and cow dung, children playing games or scuffling the gutter to find a lost coin. Cows move through the crowd searching for tidbits of stale discarded eatables. bazaars are held in our different cities for the common people, who they can buy things of daily use at rather low prices. Housewives spend a big part of their monthly budget in these bazaars, especially at the beginning of the month.
bazaar is like a fair on a small scale. As we approach the bazaar, we can see people from all walks of life around open shops on a vast ground. Vendors selling vegetables and fruits cry aloud their prices and quality. As they all want to sell their goods much before sunset, they do not overcharge. And surely they sell more. Pulses, sugar, chilies, pepper and other spices are also sold in huge quantities. The vendors arrange these in big and small sacks.
Sometimes women sit behind their husbands on motorcycles with bags full of the purchases. And sometimes families with children have to hire rickshaws or taxis. Those who own cars feel extremely easy to travel back home with all the cartload of vegetables, fruits and different kinds of articles like toys, children’s clothes, crockery, and cosmetics.
We should not forget the matter of bargain while this sale purchase goes on. There is no fixed price. It is the quality of Pakistani purchaser who visits these bazaars that he cannot buy without bargaining. Never ever that price is given or received which was uttered first. Then both are happy, and the transaction is over.
bazaar is of much worth for the middle and lower-middle classes of society. We can buy all the items in one place without having to travel to distant markets.
