Sunday Special

STRUGGLING TO drum up business in a difficult economic climate, vendors at the craft market in downtown Kingston have introduced a Sunday special.

"Things slow and many people have said they were not aware that the craft market was still open, so what we are doing is streetside vending on Sundays," Diane Sutherland told The Gleaner.

"We want to attract more shoppers and they can know that they will get low prices and discounts here," Sutherland added.

She was one of the vendors who set up their stalls outside the craft market last Sunday and this will continue for the rest of the year.

Other vendors will be on the sidewalk next Sunday with loads of bargain.

Vendors in the downtown Kingston craft market near the waterfront have long complained that while they have been managing to survive, business is slow as shoppers are not coming in.

The vendors argue there is an easy fix to their problem, "repair the port and let cruise ships start docking there again and we will be fine," one vendor claimed.

According to vendors, while Jamaicans do come looking for bargains, they need tourists to push critical volumes of sale.