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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Thousands flock to D... ( Gleaner )...</span>
With bargain prices and a refurbished Coronation Market, downtown Kingston attracted thousands of shoppers yesterday, and today is expected to be no different. From King to Princess streets and all roads leading off, the market district was a crush yesterday as persons completed their Christmas shopping."The prices dem good and me can get everything, but the crowd wicked," one woman told The Gleaner as she made her way into a store on Beckford Street."The crowd nuff but a no everybody a buy. Some a dem just a look," said a vendor on Orange Street.In the stores, the crowds were smaller and there were mixed reactions from merchants about the level of sales.Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie and Town Clerk Errol Greene were on the streets from early yesterday morning and, with the police foot patrol teams very visible, shopping was incident-free."There is one concern: the number of people is just overwhelming," said an obviously pleased Greene, who has been at the forefront of efforts by the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation to lure shoppers back to downtown Kingston. Beckford Street,, Downtown #KingstonPhoto Credit: (Gleaner)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...65121746864388
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Thousands flock to D... ( Gleaner )...</span>
With bargain prices and a refurbished Coronation Market, downtown Kingston attracted thousands of shoppers yesterday, and today is expected to be no different. From King to Princess streets and all roads leading off, the market district was a crush yesterday as persons completed their Christmas shopping."The prices dem good and me can get everything, but the crowd wicked," one woman told The Gleaner as she made her way into a store on Beckford Street."The crowd nuff but a no everybody a buy. Some a dem just a look," said a vendor on Orange Street.In the stores, the crowds were smaller and there were mixed reactions from merchants about the level of sales.Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie and Town Clerk Errol Greene were on the streets from early yesterday morning and, with the police foot patrol teams very visible, shopping was incident-free."There is one concern: the number of people is just overwhelming," said an obviously pleased Greene, who has been at the forefront of efforts by the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation to lure shoppers back to downtown Kingston. Beckford Street,, Downtown #KingstonPhoto Credit: (Gleaner)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...65121746864388