Cold soft drinks sellers and water sachet vendors at major parks and markets in Asaba are enjoying high patronage due to the prevailing hot weather and poor power supply in Asaba, Delta State.
Some of the water vendors, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on in Asaba, said that the business of cold soft drinks and sachet water had been booming in the last six weeks.
They said that their daily sales had increased by about 50 per cent and they now smiled home with huge profits on a daily basis.
Miss Rita Chukwu, a teenager, who sells cold soft drinks and sachet water at the Abraka market said: “Sales have really increased in the last six weeks because of the sunny weather. Before now, I could sell about two crates of minerals and malt, but in the last six weeks, my sales have doubled I can even sell as many as five crates a day.’’
Master Philip Ezeh, also a teenager, who sells pure water at the Ogbeogonogo Modern Market, said that the hot weather had pushed up sales of pure water from four bags of sachet water a day to eight bags.
“Since school resumed in January, I sell between six and seven bags on daily basis after school and this has been very helpful to my mother who also sells some cold drinks here at the market,’’ he said.
Another sachet water vendor, Miss Faith Azaka said: “though it is not very easy hawking this sachet water around the park, if I look at what I get after each day, I always have course to thank God for the sales.’’
“Pure water sachet business is quite profitable because each bag of sachet water you sell gives you almost an additional N100 profit.
“And for every day I come to the park to sell, I go home with nothing less than N700 as my profits.’’
NAN reports that as a result, many teenagers are taking advantage of the sunny weather to make some money for their families.
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