Stationery stores raise the prices of notebooks, pens and stationery in general

The price of school stationery in Aleppo has increased dramatically, with the start of the new school year and parents preparing their children to go to school, as the price of a pen has become 450 Syrian pounds, and some pens have reached more than a thousand pounds, and the increase in school stationery prices includes school bags.

The correspondent of Aso News Network in Aleppo said that there is pressure and demand from the people in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh on libraries to buy the needs of their children in order to send them to schools within the two neighborhoods. The price of school bags increased, and some of them exceeded 100,000 Syrian pounds per bag, and the cheapest of them is at 25 thousand Syrian pounds.

“Issa Mustafa”, the owner of a stationery store in the Ashrafieh neighborhood, told Aso News Network that the reason for the rise in stationery prices is that merchants raise prices, as well as during the entry of goods, fees are imposed on them, and therefore prices are high, and we do not have a local production of these materials except for the production of school bags and also the price of cloth is high. Currently, parents come to prepare their children for school, and some of them are satisfied with three notebooks, which are divided for one student, and some have the ability to prepare their son for school, but in general, it is not like before.

“Fakhri Omar,” a resident of Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, told Aso News Network, I have five sons and all of them are in school, and I have currently equipped my three sons at the cheapest prices, as the cost of equipping them for school amounted to 210 thousand Syrian pounds, and even I am confused about how to equip my two sons who are studying at the preparatory stage.

Because the students were not restricted to specific clothes, most of the parents expressed their satisfaction, especially that the cost of the student with the clothes will amount to more than 200,000 Syrian pounds, and these expenses are equivalent to two weeks’ salary for private sector workers who suffer during the school year from continuing to secure the needs of their children for school.