BHOPAL: As life gets normal following a prolonged Corona crisis, certain things from markets and offices have started disappearing.
The shops of roadside vendors selling face masks have been wound up, the tables outside chemists’ shop laid out with a variety of alcohol-based sanitiser bottles and masks have also been folded up, the notice on the gate of offices, banks, hotels & restaurants, shops and showrooms saying ‘No entry without masks’ have also been taken off and also the sanitiser stand and sanitiser dispensing machines put for the visitors to sanitise their hands before making an entry.
“People have stopped using masks. There is no sale. For some days, we continued selling masks but ultimately switched to caps, belts and shirts,” said Santosh, a vendor, who used to sell masks on the footpath on Link Road no. but is now selling caps, belts and white shirts.
Chemists, too, have stopped booking new orders for sanitisers and masks and are hoping that the stocks they have are exhausted before the masks and sanitisers are completely out of use. “Most of them were in related business. Manufacturing of surgical stuff, chemicals or even alcohol. Sensing a chance, they concentrated on manufacturing sanitisers. A whole new network- marketing executives only selling sanitisers or masks or both, concessions being offered to chemists or other shopkeepers and vendors, it all happened till after the second wave but then the business started dissipating", said Vinod Shrivastava, a chemist in Kolar.
