If work-from-home is the new normal, computers are the new essentials. In Nehru Place – the biggest market for IT products in the country – the crowd is back for laptops, desktops and headphones, because home is now both school and office.
There is a pent-up demand for computers, say shopkeepers. After a slow first week in June, when most visits were for repairs, business picked up quickly. By the end of June, the footfalls had touched 50-60% of the March level, the market association says. And this was without the Delhi Metro.
Before the lockdown, 3-3.5 lakh customers came to the market every day through the Nehru Place and Nehru Enclave metro stations, said Mahinder Aggarwal, president of the market association. Once metro services resume, shopkeepers expect thousands more to troop in.
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