Market Friday @ Itam Local Market + Market Survey and Inflation Rate
Greeting's my great and amazing people of #marketfriday I trust you're having a wonderful shopping with your loved once or alone. For me @ihechi, I'm here to share with you this morning my outing to our market briefly to get little thing for the kids.
I'm glad to be part of this week's edition of #Marketfriday organized by @dswigle and I hope you'll enjoy this brief outing made by me to one the local markets around my vicinity. Stay tuned as we gradually check the parts I visited during my market survey.
A Brief History About Itam People and the Market
The market in question is known as Itam market, located at Uyo local government area of Akwa Ibom state. Itam is a name of a clan that has over 60 villages, while the market have existed for over 3 centuries.
Itam market is a central market that house different ethnic groups who come on a four day period to transact their businesses. This means that the market holds every 4 days and not on a daily basis, although in recent times people sell along the roadside on a daily basis but that doesn't make the main market a daily one.
Itam people are accommodative and respects visitors. One irony about the Itam man is that he can give the last food to a stranger and console his household for that day. It's actually not starving them but it shows how he values visitors who comes to his house.
I went to the market this morning to get some foodstuffs for the family. Getting things from the market morning time is always the best as you'll buy things cheap, and also there are many alternative in case the one before you is not the exact one you're looking for you can comfortably check the next place.
Crayfish in market I have choice to make not like my street anything I can find in a shop goes be it clean or not.
Pepper market fresh pepper is always the best, the test and freshness of it is something else.
Fresh fish please just look at this fish so fresh. People don't know there's a fake and original fish called Titus.
Beans at the street is difficult getting the test of beans I desired as they don't have different types in the street they deals on customers demand. And at times the beans might have over stayed, but at the market many choice of beans very clean.
Rice in bags rice are in types. Here we have local rice and foreign rice and their grade depending on your desire.
Tomatoes and spices different type of sachets tomatoes and spices for our meals.
My Observations at the Market Today
People were not as many as they use to be in previous market days and I think it can be as a result of two things:
- it's not pay day. Akwa Ibom state is more of civil servant state and most people depends on monthly salary to stock their houses.
- high cost of goods. High cost of goods can be related to the current inflation rate of the country and the high cost and scarcity of petrol. Although, in Nigeria once there's a hike in price, it remains there for a longer time and probably won't come down.
This is just the little I'm able to get for today. @ihechi is saying do have a love weekend. Love you all.
Note:
The photos used in this post are mine taken with my Gioni smart phone.
Thank you! That was a wonderful post and so well done! The market is nice and I guess I didn't realize this one was only open every fourth day. The price of goods is so hight it is ridiculous!
Is there something you wanted to get but didn't that day because of cost?
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